Music Therapy

"Music and Mind" is a collection of essays by scientists, artists, educators and health care providers that delves into the effect of music and the arts on health and being human.

Music is a powerful way to help the brain rewire, says one expert. That's the basis of Strokestra, a program being developed with guidance from England's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

Because music helps people with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia bring out memories, some Jews in South Florida are finding Yiddish songs effective.

Key Chorale singers perform with the Sarasota Orchestra, Sarasota Ballet and even the circus. But the singers say some of their most meaningful community work comes at these weekly practices, singing alongside older people with memory loss.

After completing an approved program, music therapists are part of the hospital’s health care team working in the pediatric, cancer and blood disorder departments.

A nonprofit organization serving adults with disabilities put together a small bell choir as a form of music therapy.

Even when forced online by the pandemic, music therapy sessions continue to help patients in some ways talk therapy can't. "Music is this portal," says one therapist and COVID-19 long-hauler.

Some Florida veterans are putting on a holiday performance at their local VA, but not just to spread cheer. It’s part of a program that uses harmonicas...

Some VA hospitals in Florida are teaching veterans how to play the harmonica to improve their breathing. It’s part of a national program that takes an…

Research shows that music therapy in neonatal intensive care units helps infants get released from the hospital early. Experts in Florida helped pioneer…

Sad songs. Why do we love them so much? And might they be bad for us? Especially for people with clinical depression?Psychology researchers at the…

Camp Shine — a free arts therapy program that began over the summer for survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting — was back in...