Interactive Metronome helps restore brain function

Therapies Saturday, March 10th, 2012
Pennlive: By Body and Mind staff  – Published: Tuesday, March 06, 2012, 12:06 AM.

Timing is everything in the brain.

When a head injury, disease or behavioral disorder disrupts that carefully synchronized cranial clock, everything from breathing and body movements to intellect and emotion can be undermined.

But a relatively new therapy known asInteractive Metronome has restored the internal timepiece in the brain of many patients with autism, cerebral palsy, ADHD, stroke, traumatic brain injury and other cognitive disorders.

Interactive Metronome looks more like an entertaining video game than an advanced auditory therapy, but reaching a new level in this computer-generated game means restored function, and in many cases, a restored life.

For Julie Sterner, 33, of Conewago Twp., the therapy helped her get back to full function as a middle school principal in Dover.  Read More

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