music therapy
Singing did no better than conversation in a small dementia trial
Fifteen Amsterdam nursing-home residents tried both a singing group and a talking group; each helped in a different way, and neither came out ahead.
FNIH launches a Music as Medicine neuroscience initiative with Renée Fleming
The Foundation for the NIH announced the program on July 2 with soprano Renée Fleming, drummer Mickey Hart and Jim Weiss; the stated aim…
UC Irvine hosts a two-day music and medicine conference October 28
HARMONICS 2026 brings MedRhythms CEO Brian Harris and flutist Emi Ferguson to the UCI Student Center, with 14 CMTE and 9 CME credits for…
Music therapy lowered cravings in a 16-person addiction pilot
Anglia Ruskin researchers recorded EEG across six weekly sessions at a London addiction service; cravings dropped after sessions and frontal beta activity fell versus…
What music therapy, music medicine and sound healing each mean
Six things get sold under the word “sound”: a licensed clinical profession, a tablet of songs, a gong, a vibrating bed, a 40 Hz…
Screen-delivered music preserved autobiographical memory in dementia trial
In a 166-person Finnish trial, pre-recorded group sessions and live music therapy both held autobiographical memory steady over 10 weeks, but neither moved general…