1. What is Dementia???  Dementia is a syndrome associated with progressive memory loss and other intellectual functions serious enough to interfere with performance tasks of daily life.  When someone begins to lose their memory and when other functions that connect to it interfere with the way we act and live our lives on a daily basis.

2. Immediate Affect  What part of the brain is affected? The part of the brain in which is affected is the frontal lobe. The frontal lobe is responsible for motor function, problem solving, spontaneity, memory, language, initiation, judgment, impulse control, and social and sexual behavior functions, and when it is damaged all of these are affected. Frontal Lobe

3. Immediate Affect  The nature of this disorder is that it affects the body’s function.  The brain’s control of the body, the movement and language are highly affected.  Symptoms include disorders of mood, behavior, thinking and sensation.

4. Musical Implications  Music that helps patients with parkinsonism (park-in-son-ism: A neurologic disorder characterized by tremors, muscle rigidity and slow movements ), for example, must have a firm rhythmic character, but it need not be familiar or evocative. With aphasics (af-a-sicks: Someone who is unable to speak because of a brain lesion) it is crucial to have songs with lyrics or intoned phrases, and interaction with a therapist. Classical music is the most common genre of music used to help someone in therapy as a source to find some sort of connection to the person and the memory of music.

5. What is the disorder?  A disorder is known as Phantom Fingers.  A Phantom limb is the sensation that an amputated or missing limb is still attached to the body and is moving appropriately with other body parts.  This can affect in excited twitching, in other cases the muscles which act on the hand are absent all together.  This is a physical alignment and can inflict pain casually or sometimes always.

6. Immediate Affect  The ONLY part of the brain that is affected is the spinal cord and sensory and motor nerves to the limb!  This can also affect the remaining portion of that limb on the person.  Because of the excitement on the sensory and motions in what the overflow into the movement of the STUMPS!!! >:C

7. Background  Tourette Syndrome It is a disorder that has many OCD components also many impulsive action like tics. Music can affect a individual with Tourett's every day like the tempo which may cause tics. Certain music rhythms and notes or any random sound or noise can cause tics and mimicry.  Nature of the disorder? Its impulsive it has its own mind.

8. What Is the Disorder?  The Tics are Especially brought on by “ certain kinds of music heavy with rhythm ” and that their frequency and intensity might be determined by music. Music can make tourette's better for John or worst counting on the music.

9. Immediate Affect  What part of the brain is affected Its cause and by abnormal gene that alters how the brain uses neurotransmitters.  How does this affect a person? Tourett’s affects people in good ways and bad ways. The good is because there is a guy who ha the craziest drum solos because his Tourett's but some people let it take over and then the tics come all the time.

10. Broader Implications  “Music is a huge part of my life. It can both a blessing and a curse when it comes to ticcing. It can send me into a state where I forgot all about Tourette’s, or it can bring on a surge of tics that is difficult to control or bear.”  He added that his tics were especially brought on by “Certain kinds of music heavy with rhythm” and that their frequency and intensity might be determined by music, accelerating or slowing along with the music’s tempo.

11. Background: Disorder  There are different ways that this disorder comes with such as.  Amusia: The inability to make structural judgments about music.  The extinction of emotional response to music.

12. Immediate Affect: Part of Brain Affected  It is difficult to know exactly which parts of the brain are being affected such as post concussion syndromes, for there may be widespread if temporary, changes in brain function, affecting many different parts of the brain, but it appears to be most common in the Broca's area.

13. Immediate Affect: Affects Personality  Has no emotional response to music. (may have once had a passion for music)  May not recognize the much they once loved at all.