Rachael Natoli                                                                                                  10/30/16

INTD 105-19: Scientific Writing                                         About 230 Words

In “The Therapeutic Effects of Singing in Neurological Disorders” by Catherine Y. Wan, Theodor Rüber, Anja Hohmann, and Gottfried Schlaug, the benefits of singing on different neurological disorders were discussed. The article was broken up into sections of Stuttering, Parkinson’s Disease, aphasia, and autism are all disorders that affect language and these disorders can be helped by singing treatment. In the article it describes studies that were done involving singing treatments such as LSVT and MIT, These treatments are meant to improve specific aspects of speech such as respiration, phonation, articulation, and resonance. Many patients involved in these studies were said to have major improvements in certain areas of speech depending on the specific study. However it was also said that these studies were often small and uncontrolled making them unreliable, yet under the right conditions the researchers believe a controlled study would yield similar results.

There is a very strong correlation between the arts and sciences in this article. Singing and making music is an art form that can actually help diminish the results of a medical condition. In the aphasia section of the article there was information about the difference between fluent and non fluent aphasia depending on where the lesion is located in the brain. The two different types both cause speech issues but these issues are very different and I would be interested in researching why this is.