Music, Intelligence, and the Neurocognitive Effects of Childhood Cancer Treatment

作者

  • Nathaniel Hiscock AMusA
  • Clare O'Callaghan PhD
  • Megan Goodwin BMus
  • Greg Wheeler MBBS, FRANZCR

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https://doi.org/10.47513/mmd.v5i2.210

摘要

Improved childhood cancer survival rates are associated with increasing numbers of patients with neurocognitive impairment. Detrimental cancer treatment effects include declines in IQ, attention, executive function, processing speed, memory, visuos- patial, and visuomotor skills, reducing patients’ quality of life and the potential to achieve key life milestones. Music training can improve intelligence, attention, and memory as well as provide a medium for interaction, coping, stress reduction, and improved self-esteem. Given the crossover between the domains impaired by childhood cancer treatment, and improved through music training, there is potential for music-based interventions to minimize detrimental treatment effects. This article reviews the neurocognitive effects of childhood cancer and its treatment, provides a theoretical rationale for offering children with cancer music-based interventions, and suggests strategies that carers may use to extend their intellectual potential and quality of life.

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Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Vic- toria, Australia.

Nathaniel Hiscock, AMusA, is currently studying medicine at Mon- ash University, Melbourne, Australia; and in 2007 he received his Associate in Music Australia diploma in alto saxophone.

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Social Work, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

Clare O’Callaghan, PhD, works as a music therapist at Peter Mac- Callum Cancer Centre and Caritas Christi Hospice, St Vincent’s Hos- pital and has honorary affiliations with the University of Melbourne, Australia.

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Social Work, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

Megan Goodwin, BMus, is the Redkite Music Therapist at Peter Mac- Callum Cancer Centre, Victoria, Australia, and works with cancer patients up to 24 years old and their families.

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Radiation Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

Greg Wheeler, MBBS, FRANZCR, is the chair of the Paediatric/Late Effects Service at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Victoria, Australia.

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卷 5 编号 2 (2013)

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