Stupid IQ test

Interesting video discussing a connection between a disorder ( Parkinson’s ) clearly linked to problems with the brain clock (esp. dopamine and the basal ganglia ) and music/rhythm perception . Technorati Tags: mental time keeping , brain clock , brain rhythm , IQ Brain Clock , music perception , music therapy , psychology , neuropsychology , intelligence , Parkinsons , cognition , brain rhythm , school psychology , educational psychology

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Brain clock, Parkinson’s and music

In IAP Research Report # 9 (B rain rhythm treatment efficacy:  Can we fine-tune our brain clocks ), it was concluded (after reviewing 23 studies) that “rhythm-based mental-timing treatments have merit for clinical use and warrant increased clinical use and research attention.”   Additionally, it was concluded that: Positive treatment outcomes were reported for four forms of rhythm-based treatment . Positive outcomes were also observed for normal subjects and, more importantly, across a variety of clinical disorders (e.g., aphasia, apraxia, coordination/movement disorders, TBI, CP, Parkinson’s disease, stroke/CVA, Down’s syndrome, ADHD) Most rhythm-based brain-based interventions (the RAS, AOS-RRT and SMT treatment studies) all employed some form of auditory-based metronome to pace or cue the subjects targeted rhythmic behavior. External metronome-based rhythm tools (tapping to a beat, metronome-based rhythmic pacing, rhythmic-cuing via timed pulses/beats) is a central tool to improving temporal processing and mental-timing.

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Brain rhythm treatment effectiveness: More complex multisensory synchronization may be better?

As a member of the Interactive Metronome Scientific Advisory Board I am often asked to review published research studies that have investigated the IM method. Recently, a investigation of the effectiveness IM (which is a mental timing -based intervnetion) with children with attention deficit disorder and developmental coordination disorders was published in the International Journal of Rehabilitation Research . The citation and abstract for the article are reproduced below.

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Efficacy of Interactive Metronome treatment study (Cosper, 2009): An example of a "non-example" of IM efficacy research

Interesting story in the Washington Post regarding a well-designed study being funded by NIMH re: the efficacy of neurofeedback .

I ran across this very interest article in one of my favorite journals for short and concise up-to-date summaries of contemporary cognitive research.

I previously made a brief post about interesting research done in primates that suggested that the brain uses a “time stamp” method to keep track of the time of events.

Two very interesting research studies reported this past week. The first used a rare procedure (implanting electrodes in Broca’s area of the brain) provides useful information on brain mechanisms involved in the speed, timing and sequence of language behaviors.

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Time Doc Bytes: Two new exciting brain-based brain clock research studies