Music Therapy
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Arts & Culture
5 ways singing helps humanity
Singing is a powerful way of achieving deep personal and social meaning, as well as supporting our mental and physical wellbeing
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Arts & Culture
The music app supporting dementia care at home
A new app aims to train family carers of people with dementia to use music to support care and reduce symptoms at home
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Arts & Culture
Using music and words to bridge dementia
Music and reading can help people living with dementia. Now an international trial is showing that specific programs can help carers deliver these benefits to their loved ones at home
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Arts & Culture
Podcast
Finding memories in music
Music therapist Professor Felicity Baker uses singing and songwriting to ease the distressing behavioural and emotional symptoms of dementia
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Arts & Culture
How music could revolutionise dementia care
A new global study, led by the University of Melbourne, is bringing music in as medicine to treat people with dementia and depression
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Arts & Culture
Clearing the fog of dementia with song
Music’s ability to trigger our deepest memories and emotions could help improve quality of life for people with dementia
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Arts & Culture
Hip Hop’s healing power
Born from marginalised communities as a force of self-expression, Hip Hop gets an unfairly bad rap for its confronting lyrics, but its power to promote mental and social health is going mainstream
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Health & Medicine
Spinal patients sing to breathe easy in virtual world
Researchers are using virtual reality technology and music therapy to get quadriplegics singing together for their health
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Arts & Culture
Let’s rework our approach with ‘angry young people’
David Ali Sonboly killed nine people in Munich. As always, there are lessons to be learned
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Arts & Culture
On a positive note: Songwriting as a therapy method
Music is a powerful tool that can shape moods, define moments and ignite memories. In creating music we can share something of our experiences and ourselves – a notion explored in therapeutic songwriting