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The new PhD from the UCAM, Maria Luisa Sanchez, has defended the thesis entitled 'Music Therapy in Parkinson's disease'
Mª Luisa Sánchez Menárguez discussed this week at the UCAM his doctoral thesis on the neurodegenerative disease Parkinson.
This research raises the idea that the symptoms people have this disease on cognitive functions are due to fronto-subcortical deficits, ie, motor and executive functions, and not the intellectual loss.
For this, the doctoral student has made some neuropsychological tests used in the clinical study of people with Parkinson's.
One of the most important ideas discussed is that music therapy benefits in motor, cognitive and emotional functions affected by the disease, concluding that enables an improvement in the quality of life of patients with Parkinson.
The origin of this research comes after observation by the PhD student that music therapy is effective in the rehabilitation of people suffering from this degenerative disease of the nervous system.
Moreover, as she herself said "few research studies devoted to music therapy in Parkinson, so that our small contribution will be very significant."
The work was led by Dr. Demetrio Salorio and Francisco José Moya Faz.
Source: UCAM
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