Subject: FW: Musical abilities are among the last to be lost in cases of From: Isabelle Peretz <Isabelle.Peretz(at)UMONTREAL.CA> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 14:59:28 -0500------ Forwarded Message From: g_brennantg(at)TITAN.SFASU.EDU Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:43:16 -0600 (CST) To: Isabelle Peretz <Isabelle.Peretz(at)umontreal.ca> Subject: Re: Musical abilities are among the last to be lost in cases of brain damage? I think the key in all of this is as you said, "may". Obviously one can find studies to support any position and there are plentiful studies to support the opposite view. As a clinician my primary concern is that what I do for patients works and so long as I can get results the rest is secondary. I've seen two of the papers you've quoted and will look up the third. Certainly any information to alter methodology in therapy can only be to the good of clinician's ability to be more effective and I appreciate your pointing out these studies for that reason. Actually, as fluency therapy has developed it has gone in a completely different direction than the specific aphasias and probably that neurogenic direction is more useful than any melodic model to aphasoid disorders. Tom