Scientists are learning how music can do more than lift our mood, from easing anxiety to helping experimental drugs reach the ...

While music can provide powerful emotional benefits and stress relief, it’s not a direct replacement for professional therapy. However, music does offer significant psychological and physiological ...

Music can help ease pain, rewire the brain and soothe the spirit — -- Even though patient Garrett Lambert is in an isolation room at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, ...

“Music Therapy and Dementia”, by Elaine K. Howley, October 30, 2025 – Music therapy is a clinical and evidence-based practice that uses music to help enhance the quality of life for individuals living ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The third floor of Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital is filled with Disney songs like “Let It Go” and “I Just Can’t Wait to Be King” every Thursday afternoon: 7-year-old Bella ...

BROADVIEW HEIGHTS, Ohio — The Food and Drug Administration approved Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, or TMS, for depression back in 2008. Since then, it's been approved for obsessive-compulsive ...

How melody and rhythm can rewire a damaged brain. Nov. 14, 2011— -- In the 10 months since a bullet to the brain left her in critical condition, Congresswoman Gabby Giffords has relearned how to ...

Professor of Cognitive-Neuroscience , Department of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle When I hear Shania Twain’s You’re Still The One, it takes me back to when I was 15, playing on my ...

KALAMAZOO, MI — An arm draped over the guitar on her lap, music therapist Hannah Joseph ponders how to begin an impromptu therapy session in her simply-decorated Kalamazoo office. “Ever hear of the 12 ...