Music therapists can help you find ways to use music for your mental health. This type of therapist learns how to use music-making and listening to help people understand and process their emotions. Like traditional mental health counseling, music therapy is customized to the needs of the client...
With new and growing numbers of musicians speaking out about their mental health, it can be a sign for everyone else to recognize the importance of not shying away from uncomfortable topics. Mental health affects us all and it’s essential to talk about our struggles in order to support each...
In the expanding field of Music Therapy, music is commonly used to help patients cope with mental and/or physical health problems. In this presentation, we will explore ways that different genres of music can elicit different emotional responses. We will learn how music affects people and that ...
Local music therapist Craig Stevens was kind enough to share his knowledge on how music affects people through studies and research: "Thanks to an increasingly large body of neurobiology research, music is now objectively seen as a powerful tool that can be used to influence mood, cognition, ...
To find a therapist,visit the Psychology Today Therapy Directory. References Bowling DL (2023). Biological principles for music and mental health,Transl Psychiatry, 4;13(1):374. Levitin, DJ (2024).I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine. New York: W. W. Norton & Company....
Efforts to integrate music into healthcare systems and wellness practices are accelerating but the biological foundations supporting these initiatives remain underappreciated. As a result, music-based interventions are often sidelined in medicine. Here,
Music therapy has been found to exert measurable changes inneurotransmitter levels in Alzheimer’s patients, which may be one of the ways it positively affects their brains. Watch the Video To learn more about how music therapy changes the lives of elderly people in serious mental decline, I re...
DARK SIDE OF MUSIC- AFFECTS YOUR BRAIN There are downsides of this Music and Brain Connection. For instance, have you ever made a Dumb Decision at the nightclub maybe in terms of making new friends? You know listening to songs at high volume can actually reduce your mental and physical reac...
that musical engagement truly affects mental health. We use data from the Swedish nationwide in-patient and outpatient registers for psychiatric diagnoses (i.e., diagnosis of depression, anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, bipolar, stress disorder) as well as self-reports on mental health problems (depr...
Music and mental health research Practitioner perspectives Medical/scientific perspectives on how and why music affects cognitive and neurological processes Solfeggio and other systems of tonal therapy Apps and business start-ups that facilitate use of music to promote mental health ...