With a new grant from the National Institute on Aging, Brown University researchers plan to conduct a randomized trial of whether a nursing home program that involves listening to a personalized music ...

Music activates multiple brain areas at once, creating a workout for the mind Dementia affects more than 6 million Americans and accounts for more than 100,000 deaths in the country each year, ...

For many Kentuckians with dementia, medical interventions may seem like the only choice, but a new University of Kentucky study shows that ...

Music is often called the “universal language.” It heals, soothes, connects and cuts across every mood and stage of life. But a new study suggests your love of music may do more than lift your spirits ...

I have recently read a number of short reports and studies of music and its effects on dementia. None are methodologically sophisticated and all of them have flaws. But taken together, they offer a ...

“Music is the medicine of the mind.” That is what American soldier and politician John A. Logan (1826–1886) once said. I kind of agree with it. Being a classically trained mezzosoprano, I know from ...