Music For Maternity

Music therapy has proven beneficial in several mental conditions such as autism. It can also be a soothing compassion for someone who is stressed, lonely, or depressed. Now scientists are able to predict a person’s personality simply through the music that he/she chooses. Read more here…

Music has great positive effects for brain activity. It’s not a medicine, which cures certain disease,” says Gao, who graduated from Temple University in the United States and received his MA degree in 1994. He says the main approaches use singing, instrument playing and language guidance, to encourage people to engage in spontaneous and creative musical activities. “With proper music therapy, people can relieve anxiety and control emotions.” Read more here…

While meditation and cancer could be a “gold mine” for research, Barnes said, it could be difficult to precisely tease out the beneficial effects from some of the side benefits of meditation, which is that most practitioners tend to stop smoking or drinking and eat healthier. Read more here…

Hospitals across the country are reaching out to teens to make them feel more comfortable and encouraging a better patient experience through initiatives like music therapy to help cope with cancer treatments, as well as training doctors on talking about tough topics like sexuality. Read more here…

Cancer is a difficult subject for young adults and teenagers. They are often going through feelings and experiences that their peers are not, which makes it difficult for friends to understand. Joan Haase, one of the Indiana University School of Nursing researchers said that patients deal with many issues. They need a way to express those issues and their feelings. Read more here…

Music helps patients with Parkinson’s, dementia, autism and other disorders. For patients of Parkinson’s, it helps by providing a rhythmic beat that can work as a timekeeper of sorts for the patient’s physical system. It helps the muscles to coordinate and work together to make the patient walk,” says city-based psychiatrist Amirul Hoda. He stresses on the fact that this therapy helps the mind to calm down to a great extent.  Read more here…

A new study has found that a form of music therapy, which involves writing song lyrics and producing videos, is beneficial in helping young cancer patients develop coping skills. The type of music therapy examined in this study – called Therapeutic Music Video – is designed to help patients reflect on their experiences. Read more here…

Relaxation is important for everyone, including pregnant women. As the authors report, listening to music is not expensive, and if pregnant women find that it helps them relax then there is no harm in doing so; and it may even bring benefits. Read more here…

Meditation gives us a brief reprieve from that constant state of flux or tension we get in an anxious mind. We don’t know if more meditation practise would result in larger benefits and this needs to be tested in future research. What’s also important is that there is no known major harm caused by meditation and it doesn’t come with any known side effects. One can also practise meditation along with other treatments one is already receiving. Read more here…

Any intervention that reduces these problems is to be welcomed. Our study shows that listening to suitable music provides a simple, cost-effective and non-invasive way of reducing stress, anxiety and depression during pregnancy. Read more here…