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Lullabies are used to calm overexcited infants, and now a new therapy for Heritage Park residents with Alzheimer’s uses music therapy to do the same thing. Read more here…

ROCKFORD (WREX) – When faced with a life altering disease such as cancer, people tend to shut down and become depressed. But some patients at SwedishAmerican are benefiting from musical healing. Read more here…

EVANSVILLE, IND. – Strengthening speaking voices affected by Parkinson’s stroke, or other neurological disorders (or simple aging) is the mission of SongShine Foundation, a nonprofit public charity that sponsors music-based voice therapy programs using classical singing exercises, speech and respiratory therapy methods, rhythmic movement, and group singing to enhance speech. Read more here…

ATLANTA — At A.G. Rhodes Health & Rehab at Wesley Woods, in Rosemary Bauer’s room, it’s time for therapy. “Is it okay if I put the headphones on?” music therapist John Abel asks the 99-year-old woman. Read more here…

Music can be thought of as a holistic approach to healing—a familiar song can stir up memories of a once forgotten past, transporting you to that reminiscent place and time. Simple melodies elicit feelings of joy and laughter or sometimes pain and sorrow. Read more here…

In the arts, we are all learners,” said Lisa Wong, pediatrician, musician and author of “Scales to Scalpels: Doctors Who Practice the Healing Arts of Music and Medicine,” addressing the symbiotic relationship between medicine and the arts in a lecture Wednesday in Pembroke Hall. Read more here…

ELLWOOD CITY — Ellwood City Hospital’s Behavioral Health Unit is offering Music for Healing/Music for Life, a community education program on Feb. 27 that includes lunch. The informative program by Gina Bagnoli, music/activity director for the Behavioral Health Unit, will last about an hour. Read more here…

Music medicine and music therapy may sound the same but can turn out to be as different as chalk and cheese. While music medicine involves the use of recorded music by medical professionals to achieve the targeted biological outcomes, music therapy is both regulatory and relational approach which brings to the bedside an interpersonal bonding between the therapist and the patient. Read more here…

It has been used to reduce crying spells of children when they have been administered an injection. Transgenders turn to it as an anger management tool and ICU patients find it reassuring if they get a little bit of it by their bedside.
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The title says it all. Brazilian jazz scholar Jefferson Mello’s feature-length documentary does more than play tribute to these uniquely seductive, largely improvisational musical genres with African roots. Toggling between Rio de Janeiro and New Orleans, two of the world’s most high-profile cities where samba and jazz, respectively, are passionately embraced, Mello underscores their historical significance. Read more here…