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 ...

Having a loved one in the hospital is stressful. Being a "caregiver" takes on its own element of anxiety. Music therapy can ...

The scene: A hospital room in an intensive care unit. The patient is in bed and on a mechanical ventilator (a machine that helps him breathe) with multiple IV lines connected to him, and various bags ...

The power of music to heal—or at the least, promote well-being—is acknowledged in many cultures. But only in the past two decades have the medical and scientific communities joined together in an ...

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 ...

For decades, people have instinctively turned to music for comfort, whether to find peace after heartbreak or motivation in the face of chaos. But according to Judith Pinkerton, founder and CEO of ...

Experts have known for a long time that music or movement really promotes psychological healing. Now many are turning to sound therapy as a way to heal from some of the effects of the pandemic. “Sound ...

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 ...

CHARLOTTE — Many people in our community are touched by cancer, and while chemotherapy and radiation are often the treatment, one Charlotte woman is showing that music is her healer. Sarah Chambers is ...

Music helps reduce the pain and anxiety during an invasive surgery in adults. Music therapy is used to alleviate pain, ...