Traumatic Brain Injury: Article Analysis

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The article is about how our brain responds to music and how it helps a person with Traumatic Brain Injury. George Howard, a contributor to Forbes magazine, interviewed the CEO of the company "MedRythms" Brian Harris, to explained how their approach is more effective than Physical Therapy.

"MedRhythms" is a neuro-rehab company that helps people who suffered a neurologic injury or disease to be treated using "Neurologic Music Therapy". According to the website of the company Medrythms, Neurologic Music Therapy or NMT is the therapeutic application of music to cognitive, sensory, and motor dysfunctions due to neurologic disease of the human nervous system. Mr. Brian Harris, the CEO of the company "MedRythms" said that the rhythm is the reason

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