A Road Trip to Remember
Most people know that dementia — especially Alzheimer’s disease (the most common form of dementia) — profoundly affects a person’s memory, identity, and ability to communicate. Since there are no [...]
Music can awaken a dormant mind
After last week’s Health-e-Byte about music as medicine, I received several questions about the specific benefits of listening to personally meaningful music for people with dementia. The best [...]
How can music be used as medicine?
Listening to music is medicine for our mind in a range of contexts. In 2022, a group of mentally healthy older adults were enrolled in an eight-week music intervention. Each participant, with [...]
Can music unlock memory?
Recently I came across the Numeric Language of Music® (NLM) program conceived by Patty Carlson. Patty is a film score composer and producer, concert pianist and music educator. She taught herself [...]
There’s more to music than meets the ear
Following last week’s Health-e-Byte I received a lot of questions about the benefits of music in conditions other than dementia and Parkinson’s disease. It turns out that medicine may need to [...]
Let music be your medicine
Listening to music always prompted my father to tell stories about significant events in his life – the first opera his mother took him to see when he was 8 years old; dining out with Mum [...]
