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USC researches music therapy for children. Three University of the Sunshine Coast researchers hope their investigation of “therapeutic listening” will reduce anxiety and increase emotion recognition and attention control in children with High Functioning Autism/Asperger’s Syndrome. Read more here…

The Glee star poured out her emotions in the lyrics in If You Say So, which was recorded weeks after the death of her TV co-star and real-life boyfriend last July. Read more here…

The format for the Songbird Café series — placing four singer-songwriters in the round and having them sing songs in turn – was made famous by the Bluebird Café in Nashville, Tenn. Read more here…

Highlands Hospital’s chief financial officer told the board of directors on Wednesday that 2013 was a challenging year for the Connellsville facility. The unit uses a new music therapy session to help patients and will soon begin using art as another integrated therapy medium. Read more here…

WEEKLY music therapy sessions at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital face the axe because of a funding crisis.Managers of Rosie’s Rainbow Fund said donations – its only source of funding – only “scratch the surface” of the £50,000 needed each year. Read more here…

Some adult day care center patients in Florence enjoyed some great music Wednesday. Among Wednesday’s performers, William S. Taylor, who sang classic and Motown hits at Active Day of the Pee Dee. Read more here…

Music therapists and medical and healthcare professionals will meet here in a bid to propagate music therapy in the treatment of several diseases. Read more here…

Music therapy services are an integral part of care delivered in military treatment facilities and VA medical centers throughout the US. Board-certified music therapists serve as members of patient-centered interdisciplinary teams. Read more here…

Little-known pieces by the composer Edward Elgar have been recorded for the first time. The new album, called Music for Powick Asylum, is made up of recordings of some of the pieces Elgar composed in his early years, as bandmaster of the Worcester County and City Lunatic Asylum. Read more here…

Music can also inhibit the release of stress hormones and decrease the arousal of the pituitary-adrenal stress axis, which are responsible for increased pain intensity. Music can also influence the opioid system of the brain, which is responsible for the control of physical pain and negative emotions. Read more here…