PostHeaderIcon The doctor will sing to you now: Music therapy and the coming rise of minstrel medicine

Daniel Levitin, a researcher at McGill University in Montreal, is one of the leading investigators of the effects of music on the brain. A recent paper he wrote, called The Neurochemistry of Music, with colleague Mona Lisa Chanda, is helping pave the way for what music therapy could become.

Researchers have seen the stress hormone, cortisol, drop in brains that have been exposed to relaxing songs. According to a series of studies published in 2013, music can decrease the perception of pain for patients suffering from neuropathic disorders. Read more here…

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