Music For Maternity

Growing up can be tough for some kids but findings of a new research suggest that parents whose children suffer from depression and behavioral problems can turn to music therapy as this may help troubled kids and teens. Read more here…

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…

Evidence has shown that music therapy can address people’s physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs by either creating, singing, moving to, and/or listening to music. A recent study conducted at Queen’s University Belfast has revealed that music therapy can effectively treat depression in children and adolescents dealing with emotional, developmental, and behavioral problems. Read more here…

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…