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music therapy

the use of music as an adjunct to the treatment or rehabilitation of individuals to enhance their psychological, physical, cognitive, or social functioning. Music therapy involves singing, writing music, performing music, listening to music, and lyric analysis, among other techniques.

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decomposition of movement

decomposition of movement

difficulty of movement in which gestures are broken up into individual segments instead of being executed smoothly. It is a symptom of cerebellar lesions.