What Is Music Therapy, and What Is It Not? A Clear Starting Guide.
A clear guide to distinguishing a professional music therapy process from a lesson, a playlist or a recreational musical activity.
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Music Therapy and Emotional Wellbeing: Expression, Identity and Relationships.
How a professional process can create space to explore emotions, identity, personal resources and ways of relating through music.
Read articleMusic and Exercise: What Changes When We Create the Sounds?
Listening to a song and producing music through movement are different experiences. We examine effort, pain and recent clinical evidence.
Read articleMusic and Premature Babies: What We Know and What Still Needs Research
Brain imaging changes and later development are different outcomes. We examine both, including the null developmental findings from LongSTEP.
Read articleMusic, Memory, and Dementia: Support Without Promising a Cure
A meaningful song does not establish memory recovery. We examine the 2025 Cochrane review and the overall result of the MIDDEL trial.
Read articleWhy Does Music Stir Our Emotions? What Happens in the Brain
Pleasure, anticipation and personal experience: exploring brain research without mistaking it for evidence that a treatment works.
Read articleWhy Does Rhythm Make Us Move? The Science Behind the Musical Pulse
Pulse, syncopation and groove: what experiments reveal, why findings differ, and why there is no universal formula for making people dance.
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