A University of Minnesota Twin Cities-led team has found that electrical stimulation of the body combined with sound activates the brain's somatosensory or "tactile" cortex, increasing the potential for using the technique ...
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A new study explores the use of music-listening to relieve acute pain, finding that people who were given the impression that they had control over the music they heard experienced more pain relief than people who were not ...
Aug 3, 2022
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When Paul McCartney wrote "Get Back," he never would have predicted how useful or relevant the song would become for music therapists.
Jul 19, 2022
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Whether it's sports practice, music lessons or a casual catch up with friends, when children are involved in after-school activities, they're more likely to feel happier and healthier than their counterparts who are glued ...
Jun 21, 2022
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What's your favorite genre of music? Do you prefer Bach over Metallica? Or perhaps David Bowie is more your jam than Ed Sheeran?
Apr 13, 2022
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Treatments integrating music and auditory beat stimulation are effective in reducing state anxiety in some patients, according to a new study published this week in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Adiel Mallik and Frank ...
Mar 9, 2022
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For the first time, MIT neuroscientists have identified a population of neurons in the human brain that lights up when we hear singing, but not other types of music.
Feb 22, 2022
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When you start learning how to do something new, like swinging a tennis racket or playing a musical instrument, the simplest tasks can feel difficult. Shifting from one chord to another on a guitar can require a lot of thought ...
Feb 10, 2022
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Consuming traditional forms of media—including books, music and television—has little effect on short-term adult well-being, according to a new study published in Scientific Reports.
Jan 6, 2022
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Researchers in Japan used magnetic resonance imaging to study the brains of secondary school students during a task focused on musical observation. They found that students trained to play music from a young age exhibited ...
Dec 23, 2021
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