Emmeline Edwards (left) is the Director of the Division of Extramural Research at the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH; MD, USA). She is also the co-chair of the ...

"We need to find ways to engage frontline staff in the delivery of nonpharmaceutical interventions, including early preferred music, to achieve the goal of safe and effective management of ...

A violinist playing a soothing melody tailored to a patient's particular medical condition and personal musical preferences in the hospital can provide "psychological first aid," reports a new ...

Listening to music and playing a musical instrument may help to avert brain aging in the areas related to these actions, researchers in Switzerland and Germany have found. As people age, the ...

Music-based interventions have become a core ingredient of effective neurorehabilitation in the past 20 years thanks to the growing body of knowledge. In this theme issue of Neurorehabilitation, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Sheri L. Robb, PhD, credits a middle school assignment with leading her to her life’s work. “Probably my very ...

Music was used as a form of torture in Guantanamo Bay after 9/11 and by the Nazis, who forced musical prisoners to entertain ...

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 ...

Music listening and sleep hygiene advice significantly improved sleep quality and reduced insomnia severity in pregnant women. Both interventions also positively impacted mental health, reducing ...

Swedish pancakes and poetry saved Adam Christoferson’s life. A child of two parents with schizophrenia, he was in the foster care system when his grandmother took him in. He remembers the smell of ...