There is a long-standing debate in the field of music cognition about the impact of musical training and whether formal ...

“The move toward licensure is supported by families, providers, and advocates who say it will prevent future coverage gaps, increase oversight, and ensure that Medicaid and other payers can more ...

Music Therapy is an established psychological clinical intervention, delivered by HCPC-registered music therapists to help people whose lives have been affected by injury, illness or disability by ...

The MELODY study found music therapy to be effective at relieving the anxiety of cancer survivors. Music — as researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York have learned recently — ...

Aultman Hospital is among the medical facilities in the region using music therapy to help cancer and hospice patients. Isabel Soehnlen, Aultman's music therapist, helps reduce anxiety for patients ...

Associate Professor in Music Therapy; Senior Academic Fellow at Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne Grace Thompson is a Registered Music Therapist. Grace ...

Tango, a rhythmic partner dance that enhances balance and coordination, can help ease the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. Choral singing, which combines vocal training and social interaction, may ...

Music can be a powerful tool to help process complex emotions. But music therapy — using music in a clinical setting to help with mental and physical health issues — goes far beyond just listening to ...

In the summer of 2024, Lacy Beane woke up in the ICU at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The 32-year-old had been in a coma for weeks, slowly recovering after a severe case of sepsis had led to multisystem ...

Summary: A new study highlights how music therapy can help ease severe distress in dementia patients on hospital wards. The MELODIC approach embeds a music therapist to deliver sessions and create ...

Introduction: This meta-analysis aims to systematically evaluate the impacts of three types of Music-based interventions (MBIs)—music listening, music training, and music therapy on the subjective ...

Cynthia Cherish Malaran didn't like the piano lessons she took as a child, so it amused the native New Yorker that she found second-career success as a DJ a decade ago, spinning tunes for MTV, Lincoln ...