A professional flutist, Toshiro Mitsutomi, developed 3 tips to evoke dementia patients’ memory and their life successfully during his 40years career: 1) play close 2) play at the same eye level ...
If you’re looking for an easy way to transform your mood, cue the music.
Studies have shown that music can buoy your mood and fend off depression. It can also improve blood flow in ways similar...
Isn’t it interesting how hearing a particular song can bring back a special memory or make you feel happy or calm or pumped up? People are born with the ability to tell the difference between mu...
Music therapy is an ancient and yet very modern practice that has the power to heal and transform our brains and bodies in significant ways. Kathleen Howland, speech language and music therapist expla...
Music is the key to the soul. It can lift you up and put a smileon your face or alternatively it can bring you down and reduceyou to tears. Music is powerful and fortunately you can use itto help with...
Find out how the simple act of listening to music can ease your anxiety, boost serotonin levels and help you burn fat.
If you’re looking for a quick-fix that will ease anxiety, boost immunity a...
Many of us have either heard or seen the incredible effects that music can have on people with dementia.
Learn more about the Music & Memory Program, a non-profit organization...
Music is understood to be a great way to break through to dementia patients, but do you know why? A new study shows us how music helps those suffering with Alzheimer’s d...
Music therapy has proven to be particularly effective for people with Parkinson’s disease. Research in both music therapy and in neuroscience has shown that music can affect function in profound...
Sometimes, watching a musician perform live can make us mere listeners feel like they have superpowers. Now, new research suggests brief musical training increases blood flow in the left hemisphere of...
