Music is a powerful and scientifically influential tool in the treatment of schizophrenia and other serious mental disorders, with emotional, nervous and social benefits recognized by institutions such as IMSS and WHO.
Music as a recognized treatment by IMSS
Music has proven to be a powerful tool in the treatment of complex mental disorders schizophreniaBipolar disorder and severe depression. This idea has been supported by multiple scientific scientific studies and was recently recognized by the Director General of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), Zoe Robledo, whose most prominent therapeutic potential as part of an integral vision of public health.
Robledo emphasized that music can benefit from health at multiple levels, not only in the emotional field, but also such as complementary therapy in physical and neurological diseases such as cancer, brain events, chronic pain, and severe mental disorders such as schizophrenia. He said: “Music can be so strong that it can announce and stop wars,” which highlights its transformational role on the individual and collective level.
These phrases are in line with the investigations published in magazines such as Borders in psychology Y Lancet psychiatryWhere it was documented Music therapy It can reduce psychotic symptoms, improve social perception and encourage emotional association in people with schizophrenia.
Neurological benefits for music therapy
Several clinical studies have shown that listening to music or participating actively in its implementation stimulates the main brain areas, such as hippocampus, almonds and frontal lobe shell, and areas are usually affected by patients with schizophrenia. This motivation prefers emotional organization, sympathy, working memory and decision -making.
In addition, the metaphysical analysis was published in Schizophrenia In 2022, he concluded that patients who participated in music therapy programs showed continuous improvements in their motives, emotional expression, social skills and quality of life, compared to those who did not receive this type of intervention.
Zoé Roblido depicted music as a form Medicine is not expandedThe low cost with a high social effect. In their vision, musical instruments can become “weapons for peace” and those who explain them, and an “unusual army” committed to social transformation.
General policy and social transformation
The IMSS director has argued that the integration of music should not be considered as a strategy for rehabilitation and prevention as a luxury, but as a need in the contexts in which traditional psychological resources are insufficient or not accessible. Such a vision represents the transformation of a model, where Culture and art It is combined into the health system as active elements for treatment and well.
On the international level, institutions such as the National Institute of Health (NIH) confirmed that group musical practice improves nervous flexibility, organizes the lofty system and reduces the levels of anxiety and cortisol, especially in children and adolescents. These effects are especially related to the population at risk of mental disorders.
Also, the benefits are not limited to the individual patient. Music enhances family ties, generates community cohesion and reduces Stigma Towards people with mental illness.
An integral vision of mental health
In the contexts of social marginalization or structural violence, musical practices have proven to be flexibility and group empowerment. Robledo expressed that one of the great challenges of the health system is to rethink its therapeutic tools, and expand them towards integrated methods that combine medical with emotional, pharmaceutical with the symbol, and the individual with society.
The institutional recognition of music as a therapeutic tool represents a commitment to a more humane, close and preventive health. At a time when mental disorders are one of the main causes of disability around the world, such proposals are urgent.
Therefore, the incorporation of music therapy in general policies design can change the path of psychological care in Mexico, not only generates better clinical results, but also healthy, creative and creative environments Sympathy.
Zoe Robledo’s statement summarizes this vision: “One is our beautiful hope: walking to the future and do so with music in the ears.” It is not just a poetic metaphor, but a clear direction: mental health can also be regulated.
