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A British study which saw dementia patients undergo music therapy resulted in improvements to their symptoms and wellbeing as well as a reduction in disruptiveness to staff at their care home. Music therapy has long been known to help people with conditions such as dementia, as music appears to be able reach parts of the damaged brain in ways other forms of communication cannot. Read more here…

Little Adrian Piza receives music therapy in hospital after suffering a brain haemorrhage. Doctors claim he would never walk or talk again. Read more here…

When doctors told Adrian Piza’s parents their baby would never walk or talk after he suffered a massive brain haemorrhage at just 10 months old, it was a crushing blow. But at age 10 Adrian today is not only walking and talking, he’s ‘shredding’ heavy metal guitar and playing concerts to other sick kids after making an amazing recovery his family puts down to the power of music therapy. Read more here…

Previous research highlights the importance of staff involvement in psychosocial interventions targeting neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia. Music therapy has shown potential effects, but it is not clear how this intervention can be programmed to involve care staff within the delivery of patients’ care. Read more here…

While fans anxiously await the next installment of the popular reggae and urban music festival, today the Raukatauri Music Therapy Trust has been named as the official charity for Raggamuffin IX. Read more here…

The Raukatauri Music Therapy Trust has been named the official charity for reggae and urban music festival Raggamuffin IX. The Trust provides music therapy to children and young people with special needs and was selected from 17 charities who applied to be the official charity for the event which takes place on Saturday 20 February at The Trusts Arena in Auckland. Read more here…

Rumors of a large iPad have been around for a while, and some code in the next version of iOS hints at such a tablet. The code discovered in iOS 9 allows scaling the onscreen keyboard to a larger size than ever before. This along with the multiple window support in iOS 9 makes one think that the iPad Pro may actually happen. Read more here…

Only six people in the world know how to do what Sergio Pacheco is about to do. A middle-aged man who rarely smiles, Pacheco stands in the middle of a crowd on the National Mall, wearing a feathered headdress, beaded necklace and wrinkled dress that’s been hand painted with a large, maroon bird on the front. Read more here…

Tunes and memories are now incorporated in a program at Park Manor Rehabilitation Center. According to Merilee Richardson, director of social services, the 99-bed center has a variety of residents, some in temporary rehab and some with more long-term memory issues. The program helps residents and their families, using the power of music.
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The hard rock tunes of Kiss have soothed Jack Woodhams’ soul even as a brain tumour and radiotherapy strained his body. In the past seven weeks his parents Paul and Karyn Woodhams watched their son go from a healthy, happy boy to a very sick child in a Sydney hospital ward. Read more here…