Music Therapy to Fight Alzheimers - Dementia

Zekel Healthcare - How an iPod Can Fight Alzheimer’s and Dementia. The concept is elegantly simple: Provide a dementia sufferer with an MP3 player that has been loaded with music tailored to their taste. Let them listen. Ask them about it.As a researcher, I spend my time exploring life beyond adulthood. I am often dismayed at the many ways in which we medicalize a natural phenomenon that affects us all—aging. Perhaps there is no better example of this than the way in which we treat our elders living with dementia. In the United States today, some 1.5 million old people have been institutionalized for medical problems. About 80 percent of those have been segregated from the general population because they are living with Alzheimer’s disease or some other form of dementia.

Patients tucked away from sight, they are often treated with powerful psychotropic drugs. The treatment is not aimed at curing a disease, but at making the patient more malleable and manageable at the cost of hundreds of millions of dollars annually for drugs that provide limited relief and often cause significant side effects.Yet there is mounting evidence that non-pharmacological interventions for dementia, including use of dietary supplements, access to companion animals, art therapy, and memory training, provide meaningful benefits without the cost or the dangers. The power of music may be understood at some level because implicit memories are relatively well preserved in people living with dementia. Implicit memory is the kind associated with routines and repetitive activities. We tend to listen to music we like over and over and since Alzheimer's impacts the ability to form new memories, music we once loved remains accessible in the brain.

Music is far more complex than I can discern. But we know it employs everything from our emotions, to coordination, to visual memory and parts of our brain that resource rhythm, melody, lyrics and harmony. Music, it appears, stimulates many parts of the brain simultaneously. Perhaps that's why it can calm, improve mood, increase socialization, bring back memories, and almost instantaneously bring to life the whole person. Foremost among these exciting and promising techniques is the use of personalized music. The concept is elegantly simple: Provide a dementia, alzheimer sufferer with an MP3 player that has been loaded with music tailored to their taste. Let them listen. Ask them about it. The benefits of this powerful intervention, which has no side effects and little cost, include better memory, improved mood, decreased pain, increased involvement in the world and, most importantly, enhanced well-being.

We have learned that music uses a side door into a part of the mind that is relatively undamaged by dementia. Patients can listen to and even perform music in ways that are undiminished, even after they have forgotten the names of loved ones. We process music with almost every part of our brains and music with personal meaning can promote extremely strong responses. Clinical studies demonstrate that it is possible for personalized music to have a greater effect than medication and that it can even trigger long-term memories.There is currently no drug on the market that can help a person reconnect with their vital essence the way music will. Yet this extremely effective and inexpensive alternative is not in widespread use in nursing homes, in part because it is not covered by medical insurance.Using the most ordinary of means a personal music player and a handful of digital music files people who have not spoken in years begin to sing along with the music of their youth. Music therapy is a powerful, non-invasive, and non-pharmacological medium capable of unique outcomes. It is accessible to all and can be used with individuals, groups, or families. Need no prior music training to receive services but benefit by active engagement in the therapeutic process that may include creating, learning, listening to, or performing music.

Statement: BMX Entertainment Corporation

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: BMX Entertainment Corporation
For the Public, Information, Questions - BMX Entertainment Corporation, USA
Our Company has seen several sites listing the name or names of BMX Entertainment Inc, BMX
Entertainment, BMX Entertainment, etc. With information not pertaining to this corporation and
its employees.
On the matter of the State of Connecticut Banking, was clearly a 504 offering that the company
refused to move forward. Our employee didn’t seek legal advise before signing the document
posted on the their website for many years.
In regards to any wrong doing their are no wrong any from our company or its employees. The
fees were paid to Connecticut Banking for 504 offering without any help or assistance nothing
came out of it to benefit the company. Instead for many years having a document listing an
issue without merit.
Our company has always seek to have good value, good public relations.
BMX Entertainment Corporation, refused Connecticut in 504 offering.

Understanding Rule 504 of Regulation D
Rule 504 of Regulation D provides an exemption from the registration requirements of the
federal securities laws for some companies when they offer and sell up to $1,000,000 of their
securities in any 12-month period.
A company can use this exemption so long as it is not a blank check company and does not
have to file reports under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Also, the exemption generally
does not allow companies to solicit or advertise their securities to the public, and purchasers
receive "restricted" securities, meaning that they may not sell the securities without registration
or an applicable exemption.
Rule 504 does allow companies to sell securities that are not restricted, if one of the following
circumstances is met:
The company registers the offering exclusively in one or more states that require a publicly filed
registration statement and delivery of a substantive disclosure document to investors;
A company registers and sells the offering in a state that requires registration and disclosure
delivery and also sells in a state without those requirements, so long as the company delivers
the disclosure documents required by the state where the company registered the offering to all
purchasers (including those in the state that has no such requirements); or
The company sells exclusively according to state law exemptions that permit general solicitation
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Even if a company makes a private sale where there are no specific disclosure delivery
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avoid violating the antifraud provisions of the securities laws. This means that any information
a company provides to investors must be free from false or misleading statements. Similarly,
a company should not exclude any information if the omission makes what is provided to
investors false or misleading.
While companies using the Rule 504 exemption do not have to register their securities and
usually do not have to file reports with the SEC, they must file what is known as a "Form D" after
they first sell their securities. Form D is a brief notice that includes the names and addresses
of the company’s owners and stock promoters, but contains little other information about the
company.
In February 2008, the SEC adopted amendments to Form D, requiring that electronic filing of
Form D be phased in during the period September 15, 2008 to March 16, 2009. Although as
amended, the electronic Form D requires much of the same information as the paper Form D,
the amended Form D requires disclosure of the date of first sale in the offering. Previously, the
first date of sale was not required. The Office of Small Business Policy has posted information
on its web page about the filing requirements for the new Form D.