Have you wondered about how music affects the behavior of adolescents? This is one of the most frequent questions I get when I go out to speak around the country. I think it’s a bit of a rhetorical questions because we know that music is powerful and does affect people’s behavior, but especially people who are […]
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Another story of Music's Healing Power
By Dr. Alice Cash on October 7, 2011 in Music and the Brain, Music and the Golden Years, Music and the Mind-Body, Music Healing
Music helps when all else fails. Published on September 28, 2011 by Susan R. Barry, Ph.D. in Eyes on the Brain My 89-year-old father lives three miles from me in an Assisted Care home. Like many of the other residents, he can barely walk and is terribly withdrawn. It is a struggle to find ways […]
4th of July: How important is the music?
By Dr. Alice Cash on July 7, 2011 in Music and Emotion, music and the heart, Music and the Mind-Body
I guess that’s a bit of a loaded question. Since I am a professional musician who loves music more than the air I breathe and wishes that everyone else did to, of course I believe that you can’t even celebrate the 4th of July without music! Luckily, I’m pretty sure that many other people feel […]
Music in the Operating Room: For surgeons, this time
By Dr. Alice Cash on March 8, 2011 in Music and Dental Surgery, Music and Surgery, Music and the Mind-Body, Music in the Hospital
Music and medicine are deeply connected. But what kind of music should your surgeon really be listening to? BY RAHUL PARIKH iStockphoto/lisagagne/Salon PopRX is a new weekly column about the intersection of pop culture and medicine. In 1889 Nietzsche wrote, “Without music life would be a mistake.” As someone who regularly spends a chunk of […]
Remember the Swingle Singers?
By Dr. Alice Cash on February 15, 2011 in Movie Music, music and the heart, Music and the Mind-Body, Music Healing
When I was in high school, I was introduced to the Swingle Singers, singing their fabulous arrangements of Bach preludes and fugues, Scarlatti sonatas, and all kinds of wondrous musical confections. Only in my later years have I even become familiar with the music of people like Jerome Kern and even then, only because […]