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The therapeutic potential of music has been widely investigated in cognitive neuroscience. But in the specific case of epilepsy, this use of music as therapy is particularly fascinating due its dual effect. Read more here…

“Music therapy began during World War II, where nurses sung to injured soldiers to decrease their anxiety and connection with humanity,” said Klinger. “Eventually music therapists began working with children.” Read more here…

What many healthy people know intuitively — that the right music has the power to tap into feelings and memories in the most primal of ways —is being increasingly borne out by scholarly research. “There’s a high incidence of depression in people with dementia, especially for people in the middle stages,” explains Melanie Walborn, a music therapist and co-manager of a therapy company that has worked with Country Meadows Retirement Community in Lancaster. Read more here…

Pain is something some Soldiers at Warrior Transition Battalion know well. Additionally, many are facing separation from the Army, a major life change, and some have mixed feelings about the transition. Specialist Sheng Chen, an infantryman assigned to WTB, was injured during a training accident shortly after he arrived to Fort Campbell in 2013. Read more here…

At her mother’s urging, she had decided to pursue a career in nursing and was required to undergo a full physical examination. The examining doctor told her she had been born without some internal organs. “The examination revealed that I was born without a vagina, that I was born without a reproductive system, without a uterus, with only one kidney and a very small ovary,” she tells Jane Hutcheon on One Plus One. Read more here…

A group of UNO musicians brought the healing powers of music to kids Wednesday. A string quartet played at the Children’s Hospital main lobby during lunch. Children, staff and parents all stopped by to listen. The concert is part of a voluntary service learning program. The goal is to make others realize that differences can be made in ways you’d least expect. Read more here…

NEW DELHI — Be it the legendary Mozart’s soothing symphonies, mesmerizing classical renditions from the doyen of Carnatic music — M.S. Subbulakshmi — or tranquil instrumental tunes, music therapy is increasingly being used for patients suffering from depression, anxiety, autism, chronic pain, Alzheimer’s, coronary artery disease and even cancer in India. Read more here…

We’ve all heard of seeing red, but how about looking purple? Anyone? Toronto punks Dilly Dally join the lineage of fine artists with songs dedicated to the colour (Prince, erm, Gogol Bordello) by releasing Purple Rage. The video for the track, in which a mystical swamp monster covered in purple goop skulks around a city like an alien is, according to the band’s Katie Monks, symbolic of the feeling of dejection and anger. Read more here…

Gospel Music Heritage Month is being celebrated at the Mount Airy United Fellowship Church at 701 W. Johnson St. in Northwest Philadelphia this month. This year’s theme is showing the therapeutic benefits of this musical genre, according to the Rev. Joseph Williams Jr., the pastor and organizer of the “Gospel Sunday” series this year. So, Williams, church members and special guests shared narratives about this topic on Sunday. Read more here…

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Lawren and Collett Thach have been married for 35 years. Collett is now 66 years old and has early onset Alzheimer’s. He began to first show signs of the disease when he was 60. These days, he has few memories and often even fewer words. Until, he puts on his headphones. Read more here…