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In the largest ever study of its kind, the researchers in partnership with the Northern Ireland Music Therapy Trust, found that children who received music therapy had significantly improved self-esteem and significantly reduced depression compared with those who received treatment without music therapy. Read more here…

ASU music-therapy program a unique form of healing. When Scott Tonkinson begins working with clients suffering from memory loss due to Alzheimer’s disease or another cause, among the first things he does is strum a guitar or play his keyboard. Read more here…

Student, practitioner and teacher of Kundalini Yoga, Simrit Kaur will bring her healing music to Grass Valley during a CD release concert presented by The Center for the Arts Discovery Series 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22 at The Center for the Arts, 314 W Main St., Grass Valley. Read more here…

When Shane went home that night she sat down at her own piano and worked on the song. She returned several times over the next few days to Chamberlain’s house and the two would continue to write. Read more here…

Sun Health will offer a class on music as a therapeutic tool to improve brain health. The session, titled “Music and Memory,” will be from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Thursday at The Colonnade, Recreation Village, 19116 Colonnade Way, Surprise. Read more here…

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Drake Brada-Pitts, 23, is a San Diego college student majoring in music composition. For the past year he’s been battling a recurrence of synovial sarcoma, a rare form of cancer. Read more here…

Students at Madison Elementary School are drumming and singing their way to better academic engagement. Pre-school and kindergarten students are participating in Music Together, a musical therapy program new to the school this semester, according to guidance counselor Jessica Laslo. Read more here…

As the Miles of Hope executive director for the past 10 years, I have had the pleasure of witnessing some very special moments: 600 people showing up in the pouring rain at our Community Walk last year; women in treatment for breast cancer cheering on their family and friends playing in their honor in our basketball or soccer tournaments; survivors volunteering at one of our events when only a year ago they were not feeling well enough to attend. Read more here…

Music therapy expands its reach in the Cayman Islands. The first Music Therapy practice started in Cayman in 2010. This year it expanded its reach with a pilot programme at the Cayman Islands Hospital. Founder and Director of Cayman Music Therapy, Julianne Parolisi, Music Therapist Kimberly Febres and Speech Language Pathologist, Faith Gealey, explain how patients are impacted by this service. Read more here…

Rochester, N.Y. – Patients at the Wilmot Cancer Institute now have access to music therapy through a new pilot program. Certified Music Therapist Mandy Elliot said, “I feel like music for me has been my own therapy. I always had singing, sit down at a piano and play something, and it somehow got out what I needed to get out.” Read more here…