Summary: New research reveals that music can do more than trigger memories—it can alter their emotional tone. When participants recalled neutral stories while listening to emotionally charged music, they later remembered the stories as matching the music’s mood. Brain scans showed increased communication between emotion, memory, and sensory processing areas, suggesting […]
Music’s Effect on a Neo-Natal Care Unit in Marseilles, France
At a hospital in Marseilles a volunteer music therapist, Elsa Tanina Ouabdesselam who was still training with Mary Aillan took her little seven string Sounding Bowl into a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and began to play to the infants there. NICUs care for babies born with life-threatening conditions, many […]
Songs in the Key of Humanity
Read all about this fascinating article here: Songs in the key of humanity Also – an exciting and informative interview with Adriana Von Runic of Babies Music School: 2018 with Majeta Kramar What role does music play in a baby’s life? How can it affect a baby’s […]
Experts Say
Music seems to “selectively activate” neurochemical systems and brain structures associated with positive mood, emotion regulation, attention and memory in ways that promote beneficial changes. – Prof Kim Innes, PhD Professor of Epidemiology School of Public Health West Virginia University, USA The possibilities of music are endless and this program […]
Immune System and Personality – Emergence From the You
When we look at a newborn, we experience an encounter with a personality. But personality is not an isolated personality. As the philosopher Hegel also emphasized, we do not develop alone, but much that shapes us has to do with our community, with our destiny. From the beginning, the personality grows up in […]
How Music can Soothe Anxiety in Pregnancy
Before she became a mother, Elizabeth Larsen, 42, of Huntley, Ill., had four miscarriages. The losses were devastating and complicated her feelings about her future pregnancies. “I was always worried, waiting for the other shoe to drop. I felt broken and depressed,” Larsen says. Looking for ways to soothe […]
Music and the Baby Brain
Dr. Patricia Kuhl explains the importance of determining why its so important for the very young brain to engage in positive sensory experiences, and shares these groundbreaking findings with her audience. <<RELATED WORKS <<HOME