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“Music Therapy and Mental Health” is the topic for the Mental Health Ministry program to be held at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, October 17, at Grace Lutheran Church. The presenter, certified music therapist Erica Buchhammer, will discuss and demonstrate with numerous musical instruments how music may be used in the treatment of individuals challenged by mental illness or other health issues. Read more here…

Listening to music and being bounced up and down has helped a young woman who was paralyzed regain consciousness and could be a new neurological treatment method, a Japanese professor said at Taipei Medical University (TMU) yesterday. Read more here…

Patients and music therapists enjoy a luau party, one of several week-long activities to showcase how music therapy makes a positive difference in the lives of patients and families at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital this past week. Pictured left to right, clockwise: Near center and sporting star-shaped glasses, Dylan Kelley; D’Anna Kelly (w/microphone); Rebecca Williams (headband); music therapist Melinda Ng (with ukelele); therapist Evan Privoznik (in back, with sunglasses); therapist Evelyn Laguardia (flowered hat); Maggie Montez (in hospital gown); Victoria Meyzen (heart-shaped glasses); Ranset Cordovi. Read more here…

ONTARIO — Jonas Routtu is a quiet and reserved 16-year-old who has a love for music. He may not say a lot and prefers to keep to himself, but the Ontario teen has persevered over the last several months with a successful battle against Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Wednesday marked his last chemotherapy treatment at the Infusion Clinic at Saint Alphonsus Medical Center-Ontario. Read more here…

Patients and music therapists enjoy a luau party, one of several week-long activities to showcase how music therapy makes a positive difference in the lives of patients and families at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital this past week. Pictured left to right, clockwise: Near center and sporting star-shaped glasses, Dylan Kelley; D’Anna Kelly (w/microphone); Rebecca Williams (headband); music therapist Melinda Ng (with ukelele); therapist Evan Privoznik (in back, with sunglasses); therapist Evelyn Laguardia (flowered hat); Maggie Montez (in hospital gown); Victoria Meyzen (heart-shaped glasses); Ranset Cordovi. Read more here…

Simon came down to visit the Nordoff Robbins Andrew Lloyd Webber Music Therapy unit and the BRIT School ahead of receiving his award at the 24th Music Industry Trusts Award on Monday 2 November in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the music and entertainment industry and many charitable causes. Read more here…

The Sam Houston State School of Music is hosting a songwriter’s showcase featuring guest artist Monique Van Bruggen next Monday, October 12, at 7:30 p.m. in the James and Nancy Gaertner Preforming Arts Center Recital Hall. Read more here…

When a 9-millimeter bullet ripped through U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’s skull and tore across the left side of her brain, it caused extensive damage in the part that controls language. After the attempted assassination, she lost her ability to speak. Read more here…

The Madhya Pradesh government’s decision to install a centralised music system at the state-run MY hospital to play therapeutic music for patients has not gone down well with the doctors at the medical facility. Read more here…

LOS ANGELES — Can music really soothe the savage beast? A veterinarian in North Canton, Ohio, thinks so. Dr. Pamela Fisher has put music in more than 1,100 animal shelters, saying that it calms dogs and cats, and even cuts down on barking. Read more here…