Scientists are gradually understanding more about how and when music therapy works. One of the known uses of music in therapy is for Alzheimer’s and dementia therapy, where listening to music can help ...

Music can lift your spirits, calm your nerves, or break your heart in a few notes. It can also nudge what you remember, but ...

Faced with a lack of effective treatments to prevent cognitive impairment, clinicians traditionally have proposed background music as a candidate alternative therapy for improving performance on ...

*An earlier version of the text misidentified the Clarence Care Center's location. “Music and Memory” is a short documentary that explores the power of music for treating dementia and other related ...

New research explores music's impact on learning, memory, and emotions in two studies. One reveals that familiar music can enhance concentration and learning, while the other demonstrates that music ...

Listening to music can lift mood and motivation, but does it really improve cognition? A psychiatrist explains how music ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – World-famous opera singer Renee Fleming from Rochester is working with the National Institutes of Health to see what music does to her brain. Fleming sang in an MRI machine, and the ...

Several studies support the use of music therapy and other musical activities to help reduce Alzheimer’s symptoms. Different types of music interventions have been shown to affect different symptoms ...

Country music legend Glen Campbell spent the last years of his life at a world-renowned memory care center in Nashville, often strumming his red Ovation guitar from a sunlit corner of a community room ...

As we grow older, it’s easy to overlook the simple things that can bring us joy and keep our minds sharp. One of the most powerful tools for boosting mood and mental wellbeing is something many of us ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) — If you were to visit the Decatur Family YMCA on a Friday morning, you might hear a special group singing "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning." "Even if it's not a beautiful weather ...

Professor of Cognitive-Neuroscience , Department of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle When I hear Shania Twain’s You’re Still The One, it takes me back to when I was 15, playing on my ...