Tag: music therapy

  • Health

    Can music improve our health and quality of life?

    New research shows the use of music interventions — listening to music, singing, and music therapy — can create significant improvements in mental health, and smaller improvements in physical health-related quality of life.

    2–3 minutes
    man playing ukulele
  • Health

    Soldiers’ songs of pain — but also healing

    A project to write songs using individual soldiers’ combat experiences appears to help them overcome haunting memories of war, lessening the impact of trauma held too close for too long.

    7–11 minutes