Tag: music
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Music Therapy?
Read more: Music Therapy?PsychCentral: Music Prescription for Depression Researchers are investigating how the emotionally soothing effect of music can augment the treatment of depression and the management of physical pain…This could make it possible, within a few years, to develop computer programs which identify pieces of music that will influence a individual’s mood (e.g. to motivate them when exercising…
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Music is Brain Food
Read more: Music is Brain FoodDon’t want to learn an instrument? Just turn on the radio. From the L.A. Times: “Music is sort of the perfect activity that people can engage in from young to older years. It affects how the brain develops and affects how the brain changes in structure” at any age, Schlaug says. For the mature brain,…