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A first-of-its-kind study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology finds that music therapy lessened anxiety for women undergoing surgical breast biopsies for cancer diagnosis and treatment. The two-year study out of University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center involved 207 patients. “To the best of our knowledge, this is the first randomized controlled trial to test music therapy for anxiety management with women undergoing outpatient breast cancer surgery, and the largest study of its kind to use live music therapy in the surgical arena,” said lead author Jaclyn Bradley Palmer, music therapist at UH. “Our aim was to determine if music therapy affected anxiety levels, anesthesia requirements, recovery time and patient satisfaction with the surgical experience,” she said. Read more here…

(CNN) — It is no secret the uplifting effect of music, whether you like Mozart or Metallica. A growing amount of evidence also suggests that clinicians can use the power of music to help people recover from surgery and other medical procedures. Read more here…

The Cantabrainers Choir is a therapeutic choir for people with neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, stroke and traumatic brain injury. It aims to help people find their voice again through singing and socialising. It is inspired by the latest research into neural plasticity or the ability to change given the right exercise. Read more here…

Listening to music may be beneficial to people who suffer from epilepsy, a new study suggests. The study, which was presented last Sunday at the American Psychological Association by Ohio State University researchers, described people who have epilepsy — compared to people who don’t — displayed different brainwave patterns on brain tests when listening to music. Read more here…

(CNN)It is no secret the uplifting effect of music, whether you like Mozart or Metallica. A growing amount of evidence also suggests that clinicians can use the power of music to help people recover from surgery and other medical procedures. Read more here…

The federal agency that oversees individuals on probation, parole or supervised release in Washington, D.C., is looking to expand options for “counseling and behavioral interventions” for offenders under its charge. The Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia (CSOSA) is seeking a contractor to conduct “expressive therapies” in an “integrated way to foster human growth, development, and healing” to offenders who may also be involved in “group interventions focused on changing criminal thinking, anger management, substance use, education, and employment skills development.” Read more here…

Danilo Pérez, president of the Danilo Pérez Foundation and artistic director of the Berklee Global Jazz Institute (BGJI), and Patricia Zarate, executive director of Panama Jazz Productions and founder of the Latin American Music Therapy Symposium, are bringing students from the BGJI and Berklee’s music therapy program to Panama City, Panama, to work with the Foundation and other local organizations, August 17 – 21. Through a series of workshops, clinics and music therapy services, the students aim to empower the community to build sustainable music therapy programs at cancer centers, children’s hospitals, and nursing homes. Read more here…

Xavier Dephrepaulezz, the musician currently operating under the mildly controversial moniker of Fantastic Negrito, is ten minutes late for our conversation. As the winner of NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concert Contest, he is suddenly fielding a lot of interviews. But the 46-year-old Oakland oddball has been around this block before. Read more here…

Najwa Mahiaddin might be better known as the daughter of former deputy prime minister Tan Sri Muhyidding Yassin but she is also a popular R&B songstress and she put her soulful voice to good use in a recent music video appealing to listeners to ‘hold up your head Malaysia’ posted to her Facebook page on Thursday. Read more here…

About 80 percent of epilepsy patients have temporal lobe epilepsy, in which seizures originate in the temporal lobe of the brain. Music is processed in the auditory cortex, located in the same region of the brain, which is why researchers from Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center wanted to study the connection. Read more here…