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Is Listening to Music Good For Your Health?

May 26, 2018 - 08:05 AM If you’re looking for an easy way to transform your mood, cue the music. Studies have shown that music can buoy your mood and fend off depression. It can also improve blood flow in ways similar to statins, lower your levels of stress-related hormones like cortisol and ease pain. Listening to music before an operation can even improve post-surgery outcomes. How can music do so much good? Music seems to “selectively activate” neurochemical systems and brain structures associated with positive mood, emotion regulation, attention and memory in ways that promote beneficial changes, says Kim Innes, a professor of epidemiology at West Virginia......

10 Health Benefits of Music

May 24, 2018 - 08:05 AM Isn’t it interesting how hearing a particular song can bring back a special memory or make you feel happy or calm or pumped up? People are born with the ability to tell the difference between music and noise. Our brains actually have different pathways for processing different parts of music including pitch, melody, rhythm, and tempo. And, fast music can actually increase your heart rate, breathing, and blood pressure, while slower music tends to have the opposite effect. While the effects of music on people are not fully understood, studies have shown that when you hear music to your liking, the brain actually releases a chemical called dopamine that has positive effects......

How Music Can Heal Our Brain and Heart

April 30, 2018 - 09:25 PM Music therapy is an ancient and yet very modern practice that has the power to heal and transform our brains and bodies in significant ways. Kathleen Howland, speech language and music therapist explains how music really does have the power to heal our brain and heart. https://youtu.be/NlY4yCsGKXU Kathleen M. Howland is a certified music therapist and licensed speech language pathologist. For the past 30+ years, she has worked with a variety of clinical populations using music to enhance speech, language, cognition and movement in habilitation and rehabilitation settings. Her doctoral studies in music and cognition have informed and supported her interest in bridging the......

Three Ways Music Can Help You To Lose Weight

April 12, 2018 - 08:05 AM Music is the key to the soul. It can lift you up and put a smileon your face or alternatively it can bring you down and reduceyou to tears. Music is powerful and fortunately you can use itto help with your weight loss. The interesting thing about music is that the same track or songcan induce different emotions in different people. If you metthe love of your life during a particular song, then youprobably enjoy it and feel happy when you hear it played on theradio. Another person may have been cruelly dumped by theirboyfriend during that same song, played at the same timesomewhere else in the world, chances are this song brings backall that pain and hurt the breakup caused. Have you ever......

Boost Your Weight Loss, Immunity and Happiness With Music!

April 09, 2018 - 08:05 AM Find out how the simple act of listening to music can ease your anxiety, boost serotonin levels and help you burn fat. If you’re looking for a quick-fix that will ease anxiety, boost immunity and even shed excess weight, you may be surprised to learn that there’s one thing that can do it all in just 15 minutes a day — music! It’s been shown to decrease blood pressure, heart rate and breathing rate all via its ability to reduce cortisol and raise our natural pain-fighting compounds known as endorphins. For more info, here are just a handful of music’s many proven benefits. 1. Music can ease anxiety levelsWhen your heart is racing and you can’t seem to......

Music Therapy For Dementia: Awakening Memories

April 05, 2018 - 08:05 AM Many of us have either heard or seen the incredible effects that music can have on people with dementia. Learn more about the Music & Memory Program, a non-profit organization bringing personalized music to seniors to “vastly improve [their] quality of life.” Thus far, the program has provided iPods to over 140 residences in North America. The Music & Memory Program The world was introduced to the Music & Memory organization through a YouTube video that went viral upon its release. The video featured a senior, Henry, who had suffered from dementia for a decade and was very withdrawn, unable to communicate…......

5 Reasons Why Music Boosts Brain Activity

April 02, 2018 - 08:05 AM Music is understood to be a great way to break through to dementia patients, but do you know why? A new study shows us how music helps those suffering with Alzheimer’s disease. Learn more. Music has been known to affect those with dementia and Alzheimer’s, but why it has an effect on these patients has not always been clear – until now. Music Helps Dementia Patients Recall Memories and Emotions A recent study shows that dementia and Alzheimer’s patients can recall memories and emotions, and have enhanced mental performance after singing classic hits and show tunes from movies and musicals — a breakthrough in......

Neurologic Music Therapy Group Helps People With Parkinson’s Disease

March 29, 2018 - 08:05 AM Music therapy has proven to be particularly effective for people with Parkinson’s disease. Research in both music therapy and in neuroscience has shown that music can affect function in profound ways. In fact, some neuroscience studies have shown that certain types of music stimulate the production of dopamine and serotonin — two neurotransmitters (chemicals produced by brain cells) that are diminished in Parkinson’s Disease patients. Many individuals with Parkinson’s have problems with initiation and consecutive movement. They also have problems with slowness of movement, or bradykinesia. Music, particularly rhythm, can become a template for organizing a series of......

How does music benefit the brain?

March 26, 2018 - 08:05 AM Sometimes, watching a musician perform live can make us mere listeners feel like they have superpowers. Now, new research suggests brief musical training increases blood flow in the left hemisphere of the brain, but there are other benefits for listeners, too. Researchers from the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Liverpool in the UK conducted two different studies to investigate how musical training affects the flow of blood to the brain. They say their findings, which they presented at the British Psychological Society annual conference in Birmingham, UK, suggest the areas in charge of music and language share common pathways in the brain. In early......

Healing Harmonies: Music Used to Treat Stroke, Dementia, and Even Cancer

March 22, 2018 - 08:05 AM Maybe you've heard the age-old saying, "Music has charms to soothe the savage beast." Back then, people believed in the healing power of music. Today, hundreds of years later, medical research shows they were onto something. Music therapy is now a growing part of many treatments. For example, when a massive stroke tried to take James Rodriguez's speech, the Music and Medicine program at Virginia's Sentara Healthcarehelped him get it back. James belts out "Amazing Grace" and all the old hymns that bring back happy memories from his days in the church choir. How Music Therapy Works We actually use more of our brain when we sing the same phrase versus when we speak......

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Is Listening to Music Good For Your Health?

10 Health Benefits of Music

How Music Can Heal Our Brain and Heart

Three Ways Music Can Help You To Lose Weight

Boost Your Weight Loss, Immunity and Happiness With Music!

Music Therapy For Dementia: Awakening Memories

5 Reasons Why Music Boosts Brain Activity

Neurologic Music Therapy Group Helps People With Parkinson’s Disease

How does music benefit the brain?

Healing Harmonies: Music Used to Treat Stroke, Dementia, and Even Cancer

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