Music therapy for acquired brain injury

Acquired brain injury includes a range of conditions that involve a rapid onset of brain injury such as trauma to the head, stroke, postsurgical damage, lack of oxygen to the brain, infections, or inflammation. These injuries can result in impairment of language, sensory processing, cognition, and motor skills. One main goal with rehabilitation after acquired brain injury is to restore motor function. One approach to achieve this goal is with the help of music therapy, which is postulated to exert direct physiological effects through the autonomic nervous system and thereby stimulate brain functions involved in, for instance, motor skills.