Music therapy can support motor skills and language development for children and adults. In Arizona, Medicaid funding exists for the therapy, but it’s limited and can affect access.

11-year-old Levi Nieto faced a rare form of autoimmune encephalitis (anti-NMDA receptor) that attacked his brain. Traditional treatments at Texas Children's Hospital reached their limits, prompting ...

A choir in Orange County is using music to give people with dementia a dose of music therapy. OK Chorale meets at Laguna Country United Methodist Church every week and uses music to target everything ...

KALAMAZOO, MI — An arm draped over the guitar on her lap, music therapist Hannah Joseph ponders how to begin an impromptu therapy session in her simply-decorated Kalamazoo office. “Ever hear of the 12 ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – World-famous opera singer Renee Fleming from Rochester is working with the National Institutes of Health to see what music does to her brain. Fleming sang in an MRI machine, and the ...

This post is a review of I Heard There Was A Secret Chord: Music As Medicine. By Daniel J. Levitin. W.W. Norton & Co. 405 pp. $32.50. In 1993, Nature magazine reported on a study suggesting that ...

The term “nervous breakdown” is no longer used—“mental-health crisis” is the nomenclature du jour—but I think I had one two years ago. My journey into the psychological night was precipitated by a ...

In the summer of 2024, Lacy Beane woke up in the ICU at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The 32-year-old had been in a coma for weeks, slowly recovering after a severe case of sepsis had led to multisystem ...

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Music and rhythm therapy are gentle ways to help babies who can't talk yet develop their senses, emotions, and brains. This ...