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If you have ever listened to music, you know it has power. But did you know there is scientific research that conveys all the benefits of music on our brains/bodies? AARP has done incredible work on the healthy brain, led by Sarah Lenz Lock, JD. This article provides great insights on the power of music! Hopefully it inspires you to use music intentionally in your life not only for joy but for the good of your brain and body! https://lnkd.in/gm6XUC2Q

Have you ever wondered what the link is between the performing Arts and Healthcare is? We’re launching our global partnership with the Quality Music Foundation today @1pm GMT where I’ll be joined by Ingolf Wunder the Co-Founder. Listening to or making music affects the brain in ways that may help promote health and manage disease symptoms #BrainHealth. Performing or listening to music activates a variety of structures in the brain that are involved in thinking, sensation, movement, and emotion. These brain effects may have physical and psychological benefits. For example, music causes the release of brain chemicals (neurotransmitters and hormones) that can evoke emotional reactions, memories, and feelings and promote social bonds. Music can even affect the structure of the brain. Certain structures in the brain have been found to be larger in musicians than non-musicians, with particularly noticeable changes in people who started their musical training at an early age. Increasing evidence suggests that music-based interventions may be helpful for health conditions that occur during childhood, adulthood, or aging - ref: NIH #HealthforAll #QMF #BrainHealth #WHIS

Great news that there is an emerging new collaboration between the health scene and the music scene. I have always felt a strong relationship between my professional engagement (mathematics, computer science, digital transformation) and my non-for-profit engagement (theatre, contemporary classical music, generative AI in artistic work). Right now, as I am working a lot on digital healthcare, it is fun to hear about this partnership. Once again a connection! I hope that it will result in a lot of projects - research, piloting, dissemination - and it will lead to a deep new understanding of the impact of music on body functions. I understand that being politically correct would separate between serious playing of classical music and applying music for healing interventions. But I prefer to look at topics in a holistic way. There are a lot of indications for positive impact and some indications for ambivalent impact of music - the field is extremely wide. Some music is known to initiate alpha waves: from a health perspective this is clearly positive, from an artistic perspective it has always been a source of debate whether it is great (I know conductors who would say that) or absolutely a No-Go (I know composers who would think that). Some music is known to create horror visions, with a negative or positive impact, and it is still an open research issue whether the visions are similar for people of the same cultural background. (A colleague of mine is doing research on that.) Furthermore, there are music patterns whose impact ranges for greatest joy to real pain, for example minimal variations of a theme or stochastic variations if any of the two are performed for several minutes. But as we all know, the ambition of art may be healing pain, too. Personally, I a very interested to understand the difference between four different scenarios - listening to music alone - listening to music as part of an interested audience - participating in performing music as an amateur - participating in performing music as a professional Thomas Gartmann Nikolaus Obwegeser Institute for Digital Technology Management (IDTM) Anne-Careen Stoltze Dr. Miriam Lee Burger MD Gareth Presch Franz Leisch Silvia Maier, PhD Lisa Holzgruber W-HIT - Women in Health IT Dr Carolina Estrada Claus Noppeney Nada Endrissat Nicole Küffer Anja Habegger Marie Peskova Ingolf Wunder

MUSIC AND HEALTH - Global Partnership World Health Innovation Summit CIC - Quality Music Foundation Ingolf Wunder Listening to or making music affects the brain in ways that may help promote health and manage disease symptoms hashtag #BrainHealth. Performing or listening to music activates a variety of structures in the brain that are involved in thinking, sensation, movement, and emotion. These brain effects may have physical and psychological benefits. For example, music causes the release of brain chemicals (neurotransmitters and hormones) that can evoke emotional reactions, memories, and feelings and promote social bonds. Music can even affect the structure of the brain. Certain structures in the brain have been found to be larger in musicians than non-musicians, with particularly noticeable changes in people who started their musical training at an early age. Increasing evidence suggests that music-based interventions may be helpful for health conditions that occur during childhood, adulthood, or aging - ref: NIH Join Gareth Presch, CEO, WHIS and Ingolf Wunder QMF as they announce their partnership 15th April @1pm GMT. #HealthforAll #QMF #BrainHealth #WHIS

Music exercises your brain and helps to make connections inside the mind. https://lnkd.in/gjHHRPCD

It takes musicians to change health, and clinicians to "study" how that works. For my part, I'll just keep on making music, encouraging people to listen to it with understanding and intention, and enjoying the irony of why articles like this one seem so novel in our many-thousands-of-year-old tradition of offering the world a more fundamental kind of healing. https://lnkd.in/gDUDtxwB

Music therapy emerges as a holistic and non-invasive approach to aid recovery from Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) and Post-Concussion Syndrome (PCS). This article delves into how music can stimulate neuroplasticity, enhance cognitive functions, regulate emotions, assist in physical rehabilitation, aid in speech and language recovery, and manage pain. It underscores the importance of personalized therapy plans and the collaboration with trained music therapists, highlighting music's potential as a multifaceted tool in neurorehabilitation. #postconcussionsyndrome #musictherapy

A recent U.S. study found 75% of adults listen to music to relieve stress and relax; 73% listen to it to bring joy; 65% in order to improve their mental health or mood; and 60% use it to motivate or energize them. So just imagine a technology that supercharges the emotional impact of music manyfold. Watch this short version of the Kan11 TV station segment about the Davinci Calm and Flow technology, and how it is being used now with terror and war trauma victims. #emotionalRegulations #music #neuroscience https://lnkd.in/dv_BEQKw https://lnkd.in/dv_BEQKw

Music holds an incredible ability to unlock a flood of memories, acting as a gateway to cherished moments. A single song from our past can effortlessly transport us back in time, igniting powerful emotions within us. However, have you ever wondered what occurs in our brains when we encounter a meaningful melody? Is it possible that music has the potential to not only uplift the spirits of older adults but also enhance their overall well-being? Discover the burgeoning scientific fascination with the impact of music on the aging brain and body by delving into the following link: https://lnkd.in/dCCHeWin.

DOES MUSIC MAKE YOU SMARTER? Here is a link to a short presentation I give as part of a series of talks I offer on Music, Brain, Mind and Health. This talk is on the topic of whether listening to music, singing or playing a musical instrument might make us smarter. A fascinating and soon to be released book, _Music and Mind_ (Penguin/ Random House), edited by the esteemed soprano Renée Fleming, and with chapters by many of the world’s greatest musicians and scientists in this field, make the topic of Music and the Brain both timely and important. This talk discusses the so-called Mozart effect, as well as cortical neural plasticity as a result of playing a musical instrument. https://lnkd.in/eVGNJfYZ https://lnkd.in/eRPTYdW8 #music #brainhealth #brain #mozart #mind #health #healthandwellness #neuroscience #neurology