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AUSTIN – Music can do more than soothe or entertain. Just ask Hope Young, founder of the Center for Music Therapy in Austin. “Neurologically speaking, it’s one of the only sensory stimulus we have that can activate every single area of the brain at the same time,” Young said. Read more here…

Music therapists have been busy. Prior to 2011, no state required music therapists to obtain an occupational license. Yet, as a result of efforts of the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA) and the Certification Board for Music Therapists (CBMT), in the span of 13 months from 2011-12, North Dakota, Nevada, and Georgia enacted laws renotequiring music therapists to get licensed. More recently, on July 1, 2015, Oregon became the fourth state to license music therapists. Read more here…

The echo of the drum beats against the twinkling keys on the piano. It’s not a song anyone would recognize – the notes aren’t played in any particular rhythm, the tune isn’t written down anywhere – but it calms the 37-year-old man with nonverbal autism. Read more here…

Every time her newborn becomes cranky, Hayat Fatima, 26, plays the ‘Selfie le le’ song from Salman Khan-starrer Bajrangi Bhaijaan. Instantly, the one-month-old calms down. “I was seven months pregnant when I watched this movie. He started kicking hard the moment this song started. It felt like he was dancing inside me. This was the only song he reacted to that way,” says the Delhi schoolteacher. “After he was born, I noticed that he still enjoyed the song. We now play it to pacify him and it really works.” Read more here…

A Florida lawmaker is proposing to place individuals who want to practice music therapy, the use of music production or singing as a form of physical or psychological therapy, under the regulation of state bureaucrats. Read more here…

ROSEBURG, Ore. – To cope with the tragedy at Umpqua Community College, many Roseburg residents have turned to music as an outlet for their grief. This weekend, the road to healing continued with the Umpqua Strong Music Festival. Read more here…

The last time I had a mammogram, I got a big surprise — and it was a good one. A string quartet was playing just outside the doors of the breast imaging center, and my thoughts immediately shifted from “What are they going to find on the mammogram?” to “Is that Schubert, or Beethoven?” By the time my name was called, I had almost forgotten why I was there. Read more here…

Recent Titusville High School graduate Chase Upchurch recently traveled to Harrisburg to promote and advocate for the benefits of music therapy, speaking with a handful of lawmakers to support state bills that would help build on the initiative. Read more here…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — For Seal, songwriting is like therapy. And since splitting from Heidi Klum in 2012, he’s been immersed. “It’s really cathartic,” he said. “When people have something that’s ailing them or something that’s weighing on them and they go and see a therapist or a shrink …

CHARLESTON, S.C. —Pop superstar Pharrell Williams vistited and preformed with a gospel choir Sunday at the Charleston church where nine parishioners were shot and killed on June 17. Read more here…