Music therapy helps stroke survivors regain lost speech by singing
Ray Hart's vocabulary consisted of just one word after his August 2022 stroke.
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Therapeutics: News and Research on Music Therapy
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Neuroplasticity study shows how singing rehabilitates speech production in post-stroke aphasia
Cerebrovascular accidents, or strokes, are the most common cause of aphasia, a speech disorder of cerebral origin. People with aphasia have a reduced ability to understand or produce speech or written language. An estimated ...
May 16, 2024
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Listening to mindfulness audios during radiation found to improve physical, emotional side effects
Men with prostate cancer who are treated with radiation therapy experience significant side effects such as fatigue, sleep problems, anxiety and depressive symptoms. But listening to mindfulness audio recordings significantly ...
Apr 30, 2024
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Researchers provide recommendations for understanding music therapy's impact on chronic pain
A recent article from a multi-institutional group of researchers provides recommendations for music therapy practice and research among individuals with chronic pain using sickle cell disease as an exemplar condition.
Mar 12, 2024
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Music therapy could help manage the pain of bereavement
Grief has always inspired songwriters. Popular songs including Let Me Go, by Gary Barlow, Eric Clapton's Tears in Heaven and The Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics, were all written as a way of working through the grief ...
Feb 29, 2024
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Pediatric sickle cell disease team uses pain screening to improve care
A recent study from researchers at University Hospitals (UH) Connor Whole Health and UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital describes a quality improvement project where pain screening procedures were embedded within an ...
Feb 13, 2024
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Taking a global view of musical care
The field of musical care has been rapidly developing in recent years, and a recent paper by Dr. Katie Rose Sanfilippo at City, University of London has introduced the Musical Care International Network and the work that ...
Feb 7, 2024
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Veterans with housing insecurity benefit from making music, finds study
A study by U.S. Department of Veterans Health Administration and Regenstrief Institute research scientists Dawn Bravata, M.D., and Nicholas Rattray, Ph.D., evaluates a participatory music program's effect on veterans struggling ...
Feb 1, 2024
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Three potentially unique acoustic features of healing music that transcend genre identified
There are three potentially unique acoustic features of healing music that transcend musical genres, suggests research published in the open access journal General Psychiatry.
Dec 19, 2023
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Why emotions stirred by music create such powerful memories
Time flows in a continuous stream—yet our memories are divided into separate episodes, all of which become part of our personal narrative. How emotions shape this memory formation process is a mystery that science has only ...
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