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The film follows Music and Memory founder Dan Cohen as he fights against “a broken health care system” to prove music’s ability to fight memory loss and “restore a deep sense of self.” Music and Memory is a nonprofit organization founded in 2006 to provide elderly persons with music to improve their quality of life and “to make therapeutic music a standard part of elder care.” Read more here…

Everything you always suspected about music is true. Scientists can point to the parts of the brain that music stimulates, where our deepest memories and feelings reside. The phenomenon even stretches back to before birth, when the sound of a heartbeat establishes our sensory proclivity toward music. Read more here…

A new documentary coming to theatres around the US over the next few months explores Dan Cohen’s Music and Memory program and its emotional and therapeutic impacts on the lives of people with dementia and Alzheimer’s. “Alive Inside is a joyous cinematic exploration of music’s capacity to reawaken our souls and uncover the deepest parts of our humanity,” says the producer’s website. Read more here…

A presentation on music therapy was held in the Inner Circle of the library on Saturday. Local music therapist, Michele Folster explained what music therapy is, its history, and who it can help, but she says you have to experience it to understand it. Read more here…

HERKIMER — The Herkimer ARC will host Autism Movement Therapy classes on Wednesdays for teens ages 13 and older and adults at the agency’s exercise and dance studio at the Gail W. Brown Center, 411 Folts St. in Herkimer.  Read more here…

Operation Song, professional songwriters/singers from Nashville who have written award winning songs for the stars and who dedicate their time to music therapy with returning soldiers and veterans, was brought to the area by Heartland Therapeutic Programs, a North Georgia nonprofit, July 11-13. Read more here…

If there’s a problem with Michael Rossato-Bennett’s Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory, an engaging, vaguely uplifting documentary about how personalized music therapy can help dementia patients, it’s that it ignores the very tune it’s playing. Rather than present its elderly, memory-impaired subjects as human beings who deserve more from life, they’re offered up as ersatz spokespeople for the effectiveness of this already-tested technique. Read more here…

Chrissy Pearson, clinical manager at the Music Therapy Centre, says she lives in fear of the day she has to tell her clients the facility must close its doors.  Read more here…

A music therapy program for pediatric patients received a boost Wednesday when NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Steve Young and his wife, Barb, presented a check for $150,000 to Sutter Children’s Center, Sacramento to construct a music therapy facility on the midtown campus of Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento. Read more here…

Lisa Gracey shares a puppet of an orange bear with 11-month-old son, Duke, singing ‘Old MacDonald had a Farm,’ encouraging him to be engaged in his music therapy class. He grabs at the soft material and bounces in excitement. Read more here…