Music For Maternity

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Nearly a dozen elderly men and women sat in a circle shaking maracas and beating bongo drums while three young women musicians hummed a song. After the song had ended, one of the older women asked guitarist Wang Weijia to create a song about a grandmother and her granddaughter. Read more here…

Piano soloist and storyteller Robin Spielberg will share original music and real-life stories when she performs at 7 p.m. Oct. 1 at the Sheldon Theatre. She also will make a special appearance at Mayo Clinic Health System in Red Wing to talk about another role she fills. Spielberg is celebrity artist spokesperson for the American Music Therapy Association. Read more here…

In a 2007 study, researchers from UCLArts & Healing set out to determine if group drumming could help reduce stress in children. Those leading the study combined activities of group drumming and group counseling designed to build a variety of skills, ranging from self esteem to stress management.“We found significant reductions in all sorts of problem behaviors related to such things as inattention, withdrawal and depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress,” said UCLArts & Healing Founding Executive Director Ping Ho. “These are actually regular school children, and I think that’s what made our study so amazing.” Read more here…

Music and church were the constants in Caroline Berry’s life. But a few years after dementia began ravaging her mind, nothing could convince her to leave the comfort of home for Sunday services. The cruel irony wasn’t lost on her son, Don Berry, of Elizabethtown. As his mother’s personality faded, Berry still saw the woman who would wake him after a late night playing with his band and push him out the door to Wesley Methodist Church. Read more here…

The therapeutic potential of music has been widely investigated in cognitive neuroscience. But in the specific case of epilepsy, this use of music as therapy is particularly fascinating due its dual effect. Read more here…

“Music therapy began during World War II, where nurses sung to injured soldiers to decrease their anxiety and connection with humanity,” said Klinger. “Eventually music therapists began working with children.” Read more here…

What many healthy people know intuitively — that the right music has the power to tap into feelings and memories in the most primal of ways —is being increasingly borne out by scholarly research. “There’s a high incidence of depression in people with dementia, especially for people in the middle stages,” explains Melanie Walborn, a music therapist and co-manager of a therapy company that has worked with Country Meadows Retirement Community in Lancaster. Read more here…

Pain is something some Soldiers at Warrior Transition Battalion know well. Additionally, many are facing separation from the Army, a major life change, and some have mixed feelings about the transition. Specialist Sheng Chen, an infantryman assigned to WTB, was injured during a training accident shortly after he arrived to Fort Campbell in 2013. Read more here…

At her mother’s urging, she had decided to pursue a career in nursing and was required to undergo a full physical examination. The examining doctor told her she had been born without some internal organs. “The examination revealed that I was born without a vagina, that I was born without a reproductive system, without a uterus, with only one kidney and a very small ovary,” she tells Jane Hutcheon on One Plus One. Read more here…

A group of UNO musicians brought the healing powers of music to kids Wednesday. A string quartet played at the Children’s Hospital main lobby during lunch. Children, staff and parents all stopped by to listen. The concert is part of a voluntary service learning program. The goal is to make others realize that differences can be made in ways you’d least expect. Read more here…