About Dr. Alice Cash

For close to three decades, Dr. Alice Cash has devoted her professional life to the promotion of music for healing. Dr. Cash combines her Masters in Social Work with her PhD in Musicology to educate people in the art and science of music’s unique properties. In 1996, Dr. Cash launched Healing Music Enterprises as a vehicle to offer her expertise to health care professionals, educators, students, organizations and people at large. In 2005, Surgical Serenity Solutions was born and is providing the ideal soothing music for surgical patients through pre-loaded, cordless headphones. Her services are in high demand across North America and more recently, at an international level. Dr. Cash grounds her seminars, workshops, clinical and private practice work in well-established research and theory.

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Here's your brain on jazz!

By Dr. Alice Cash on February 1, 2011 in Music and the Brain, Music and the Mind-Body, Music in the News!

Have you ever wondered about your brain on jazz? Jazz is said to be the only true American musical genre. Even within jazz, there are now many sub-genres. The performer is actually a neuroscientist and had the ability to have a little keyboard created. He took it into an MRI machine to show the difference […]

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Can Music Therapy Help in a Crisis/Emergency Situation?

By Dr. Alice Cash on January 28, 2011 in Music Healing, Music in the News!

This morning at the University of Louisville School of Music, a fascinating lecture was delivered by Barbara Else, a certified music therapist from Tucson, Arizona. As a matter of fact, she was called in almost immediately after the shootings there just two weeks ago. Here’s the story from our local news station: LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) […]

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More Research on the power of music with Dental Surgery

By Dr. Alice Cash on January 24, 2011 in Music and Dental Surgery, Music Research

J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2010 Aug 11. [Epub ahead of print] Musical Intervention Reduces Patients’ Anxiety in Surgical Extraction of an Impacted Mandibular Third Molar. Kyoung Kim Y, Kim SM, Myoung H. Primary Researcher. Abstract PURPOSE: Patients undergoing impacted mandibular third molar (IMTM) extraction often have severe perioperative anxiety, which may lead to increased perceptions […]

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New Study Proves that Music has same effect on pleasure centers of brain as sex, falling in love, and chocolate

By Dr. Alice Cash on January 10, 2011 in Music and the Brain, Music in the News!

Jan. 7, 2011 1:17 PM ET New YORK (AP) — Whether it’s the Beatles or Beethoven, people like music for the same reason they like eating or having sex: It makes the brain release a chemical that gives pleasure, a new study says. The brain substance is involved both in anticipating a particularly thrilling musical […]

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Using Music to prevent Bed Sores in Nursing Homes?

By Dr. Alice Cash on January 1, 2011 in Music and the Golden Years, Music in the Hospital, Music in the News!

I was thrilled to open my local newspaper this morning (the Louisville Courier-Journal) and find a major news story about how music is being used in Kentucky nursing homes to prompt the staff to re-position patients who are bed-ridden. Enjoy! Bedsores can be a serious problem for the elderly, but a University of Cincinnati study […]