In the process of melodic intonation therapy, patients are taught to self-evaluate their level of success in reproducing the sounds made by the speech pathologist. The singing of words slows down the process of producing phonemes or individual speech sounds, allowing the patient to hear differences more distinctly.
Benzodiazepines (BZD, BZs), sometimes called benzos, are a class of psychoactive drugs whose core chemical structure is the fusion of a benzene ring and a diazepine ring.
MAO (monoamine oxidase) inhibitors are a class of medication that is used to treat depression. Benzodiazepines are a class of medication that treats anxiety disorders, seizures, and muscle spasms. Though the classes have some condition overlap, they differ on mechanism of action. Xanax is not an MAO inhibitor.