Music in premature infants enhances high-level cognitive brain networks

• DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1817536116
• Publication Date: 2019-05-28T21:26:05Z
• Authors: Lara Lordier; Djalel-Eddine Mes...; Frédéric Grouiller; Marie P. Pittet; Andreas Vollenweider; Lana Vasung; Cristina Borrador...; François Lazeyras; Didier Grandjean; Dimitri Van De Ville; Petra S. Hüppi
• Keywords: Brain Development; Salience (neuroscience); Music Therapy

Significance Preterm babies are cared for in neonatal intensive care units (NICU), which busy places with a lot of mechanical noise increasingly recognized to disrupt normal brain development. NICUs therefore invest developmental procedures, music example, but neurobiological evidence these interventions is missing. We present results from clinical trial study the effects intervention on preterm infants’ Based resting-state fMRI, we provide that enhanced connectivity circuitry involving salience network regions implicated sensory and higher-order cognitive functions, previously found be altered infants. To our knowledge, this unique observing an impact development newborns.