Summary:
What helped these patients was music-based cognitive remediation therapy. Dr Shantala Hegde, associate professor in Neuropsychology and faculty in-charge of Music Cognition Laboratory said, “Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT) had been developed as treatment to improve language, sensorimotor and cognitive domains of functioning. Self-chosen music was also used to treat amnesia, added Dr Hegde. The patients were treated in a hospital and at home to close to two years after which they improved significantly. The goal in neuropsychological rehabilitation is to help patients revert back to normal functioning or at least near-normal functioning..