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Previous research highlights the importance of staff involvement in psychosocial interventions targeting neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia. Music therapy has shown potential effects, but it is not clear how this intervention can be programmed to involve care staff within the delivery of patients’ care. Read more here…

While fans anxiously await the next installment of the popular reggae and urban music festival, today the Raukatauri Music Therapy Trust has been named as the official charity for Raggamuffin IX. Read more here…

The Raukatauri Music Therapy Trust has been named the official charity for reggae and urban music festival Raggamuffin IX. The Trust provides music therapy to children and young people with special needs and was selected from 17 charities who applied to be the official charity for the event which takes place on Saturday 20 February at The Trusts Arena in Auckland. Read more here…

Rumors of a large iPad have been around for a while, and some code in the next version of iOS hints at such a tablet. The code discovered in iOS 9 allows scaling the onscreen keyboard to a larger size than ever before. This along with the multiple window support in iOS 9 makes one think that the iPad Pro may actually happen. Read more here…

Only six people in the world know how to do what Sergio Pacheco is about to do. A middle-aged man who rarely smiles, Pacheco stands in the middle of a crowd on the National Mall, wearing a feathered headdress, beaded necklace and wrinkled dress that’s been hand painted with a large, maroon bird on the front. Read more here…

Tunes and memories are now incorporated in a program at Park Manor Rehabilitation Center. According to Merilee Richardson, director of social services, the 99-bed center has a variety of residents, some in temporary rehab and some with more long-term memory issues. The program helps residents and their families, using the power of music.
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The hard rock tunes of Kiss have soothed Jack Woodhams’ soul even as a brain tumour and radiotherapy strained his body. In the past seven weeks his parents Paul and Karyn Woodhams watched their son go from a healthy, happy boy to a very sick child in a Sydney hospital ward. Read more here…

A local company is treating patients who suffer from neurological disorders and brain injuries with the healing powers of music, a type of therapy researchers say is gaining traction in the medical world. MedRhythms, founded by 26-year-old Brian Harris — who earned his master’s degree in music therapy from Lesley University in Cambridge — uses rhythm and melodies to help combat the effects of conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, autism and the aftermath of strokes. Read more here…

“The arts are the universal language,” said Carole Wolf, executive director of the Poughkeepsie based multi-arts education center. “When people are so full of fear and anxiety, it gets their minds off their treatments. It helps to alleviate the fear and anxiety they’re feeling.” Read more here…

The reason The Magic Whip has been hailed as a rousing return for British music legends Blur is apparent within the first minute of the album’s opener, Lonesome Street. It’s a foot-stompingly assured slice of Park Life-esque familiarity, tempered and made new – the swagger of Albarn’s early musings, remoulded with a signature Coxon riff egging on prose about provincial English living and pride in suburban mundanity. Classic Blur then. Read more here…