Seven years ago, when MediMusic Co-Founder and CEO Gary Jones, first began extolling the potential of dispensing music as medicine, this was a question that healthcare practitioners would repeatedly ask him – nowadays, they don’t. He explains why. We have all self-medicated with music at some point in our lives. Whether it is listening to…
A love for music is something that unites all of us – no matter how old we are or where we come from. We may not enjoy the same music, but when we hear a tune we love we can’t help but tap our feet or sing along. It has long been known that playing…
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder “Exposure to an exceptionally threatening event of catastrophic nature” – PTSD! A condition which has been around since the human race began. Early humans would have endured attacks from predatory animals, witnessed atrocities from fighting between tribes or have been subjected to life changing circumstances. Today we contend with warfare, terrorism, traumatic…
In ancient Greek mythology, the nine muses and daughters of Zeus, king of the gods, presided over music, song and dance. Indeed, the word music is thought to have derived from the Greek word ‘mousike’ meaning ‘Art of the Muses’. Transcending cultures and playing an important part of people’s everyday lives, music has an important…
A new research study ‘Mental Health of Children & Young People in England, 2020’ identified that 1 in 6 (16%) children and young people aged between 5 to 16 years have a “Probable Mental Health Disorder”. Increasing from 1 in 9 (10.8%) since 2017 and evident in both boys and girls. Commissioned by NHS Digital…
The answer to this thought-provoking question relies on your ideas about exactly what a language is. If you consider a language to be a means of transmitting data about the external world from one person to another, then music doesn’t seem to fit the bill. One can’t find any information about the outside world purely…
We’ve all heard the saying, “Where words fail, music speaks” – and now, there’s a study to prove it. New research from Harvard University shows that music carries a set of unique codes and patterns, which are in fact universally understood. Conducted by the university’s science department, the aim of the study – titled Universality…
Abstract Music is widely used by people of all ages as a stimulant and relaxant to manage everyday situations. Whether to motivate us for exercise or to help us unwind after a busy day, we seem to have an intuitive understanding about the influences music has on our bodies. The body’s responses to music are…
Last Thursday, in a New York Times op-ed, neurologist and best-selling author Oliver Sacks revealed that he has been battling cancer in various forms for the past nine years and that it has now metastasized in his liver. “This form of cancer cannot be halted,” he writes. But rather than resigning to his disease and…
A new Finnish research team have found that practising an instrument can make you a better communicator by altering the brain. Sound, and by extension music, is a primal form of communication. We can express emotion, tell stories, inspire empathy, trust and compassion through the sounds we make, and […] Click here to view original…
