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?
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) […]
New Study Proves that Music has same effect on pleasure centers of brain as sex, falling in love, and chocolate
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 […]
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 […]
Healing Music Utilized in Chilean Mine
Healing music can be most anything that YOU find calming, soothing, comforting or energizing. Music that has positive and pleasant associations is music that will be healing for you. So it was not a surprise to me to hear that one of the trapped Chilean miners that loved Elvis Pressley, chose to have singalongs […]