Baker, F: Post Traumatic Amnesia and Music

Observing highly agitated, disoriented and distressed young adults experiencing posttraumatic amnesia is emotionally difficult for the family to witness, and problematic for staff managing them in acute hospital wards. Neurorehabilitation practitioners consider management of posttraumatic amnesia is best achieved by limiting the amount of stimuli they are exposed to. Consequently music during posttraumatic amnesia is considered contraindicated. This book offers an alternative perspective by showing how familiar and stylistically simple music re ...