As anyone who has ever heard “their song” can attest, the right music has the power to make you move. Now, healthcare providers are trying to harness this power to help patients with a disabling ...

Music tastes vary wildly: one person melts into Mahler, another lives for Sinatra, and someone else wants Snoop on repeat.

Nurse Rod Salaysay works with all kinds of instruments in the hospital: a thermometer, a stethoscope and sometimes his guitar and ukulele. In the recovery unit of UC San Diego Health, Salaysay helps ...

Eating disorders are notoriously challenging to treat. Nonetheless, music therapy has been demonstrated to alleviate some of the most common symptoms in eating disorders. 1; 2; 3; 6 Exactly why music ...

In two separate studies, researchers learned more about the way that our brains respond to music. One study found that brain neurons synchronize with musical rhythms, while the other showed how ...

Editor’s note: Every year, hundreds of undergraduates at the University of Delaware pursue research under the guidance of a faculty mentor, especially during the summer months. Such experiences ...

Isabella Kensington appreciates the science of a good, sad pop song—neuroscience, specifically. I meet the British-American singer-songwriter at East Village institution Veselka, the legendary ...

The effect of music on the mind is a subject for constant fascination. Neuroscience has “discovered” the effects of older music on people’s minds and it’s a big deal. Actually, you didn’t discover it.