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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

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

Grab your favorite instrument and make some music; it's good for your brain health! Check out this article from BBC News, which sheds light on how playing a musical instrument can help improve brain health for older adults. #WeAreTheCignaGroup #Cigna #CignaHealthcare #Medicare

Today is World Alzheimer's Day. Did you know areas of musical functioning are preserved in individuals living with dementia? Wondering what is the evidence base for the use of music and music therapy interventions to target specific health outcomes across sociocultural, cognitive, physical, social, and spiritual domains? Check out Berklee's Music and Health Institutes research repository, where you can search by condition; procedure/treatment; targeted outcome; measures; setting; type of music intervention, and more. Our dementia collection is live, and updated regularly. Learn the evidence behind the use of music and music therapy interventions to elevate mood, decrease depression, anxiety, and irritability, lower stress and stress responses, improve well-being, increase self-expression, evoke positive memories and meaningful associations, create a sense of community, and improve overall quality of life for those living with dementia, and their loved ones. https://lnkd.in/ek4xc6JQ #musicandhealth #musictherapy #dementiaawareness #dementiacare #musicinnovation #musicmedicine

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

Seed planted! Just submitted my CIS on the Lived Experiences of Sexually Exploited Survivors Through the Lens of Music Therapy. This paper aims to better understand the impact of trauma through music interventions and therapeutic relationships and presents how music therapists create a safe environment to support trafficked women and children. Research shows that a response to music may release adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) which regulates cortisol, a hormone responsible for regulating the physiological impacts of stress. Music Therapy employs appropriate and deliberate use of music that allows them to directly access the emotions and the risks associated with evoking and solidifying “unpleasant and threatening memories.” (Sutton, 2002). According to Interpol (2022), Human trafficking affects global security and is prevalent in all regions of the world. #musictherapy #childtrafficking #humantrafficking

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

Where science meets music and music is medicine. Something I knew nothing about just over a year ago - before starting work with the amazing PURE ENERGY GO team - was the science behind music. For example, 174 Hz is known as the healing frequency, who knew?! Sitting at my desk this morning listening to this new album, I feel genuinely calm. And feeling calm is helping me to focus on the long list of stuff that needs doing today! Being honest, some days I think about work and feel utterly overwhelmed. Music helps me massively. More than 1 in 10 of us live with anxiety disorder at some point in our lives and for many, this develops into physical symptoms too. It’s knowing things like this that guides the work of the PURE ENERGY GO fit pros and producers to make incredible music for instructors to work their magic on thousands of people joining classes where they need to release the fear, anxiety and negative emotions that cling to us all at some point. Wherever you get your music from and whatever you’re doing during your day, don’t overlook its power as a tool we can all use to ground ourselves and promote overall wellness.

From the article: "“Although more research is needed to investigate this relationship, our findings indicate that promoting musical education would be a valuable part of public health initiatives to promote a protective lifestyle for brain health, as would encouraging older adults to return to music in later life. There is considerable evidence for the benefit of music group activities for individuals with dementia, and this approach could be extended as part of a healthy aging package for older adults to enable them to proactively reduce their risk and to promote brain health.” #medialiteracy #mediapsychology #music #musictherapy #olderadults #oldage #brainhealth #aging #musiceducation #musiceducationmatters Kerry Opel, Ph.D., ABC-CC Shane Pase, Ph.D. Sean P. Thoennes, PhD, MA

There is a renewed fascination and growing understanding of the healing powers of music. This well researched article outlines the most recent and historical breakthroughs in neuroscientific research substantiating music’s therapeutic properties. Some of the most exciting advancements are around emotional regulation and brain re-engagement. New understanding has led to a growing integration of music therapy with conventional mental health treatments with significant improvements noted with memory care patients. Musical interventions have also been shown to help people with cancer, chronic pain, depression and debilitating consequences of stress, including elevated blood pressure and muscle tension. When engaged by music our brains, powered by a release of neurochemicals, access memories that elicit positive self-reflection. The hippocampus, crucial for memory formation, and the prefrontal cortex, responsible for higher cognitive functions, are stimulated to retrieve and potentially create new memories with autobiographical significance - changing how we feel in response to certain stimuli. With this line of research we hope to see music better understood, leading to personalized therapeutics. We may not be here yet, but it looks like this is where music therapy can take us and it is going to be an amazing journey. #musictherapy #depressiontreatment #anxietyrelief #stressreduction #dementiacare #happinesscoaching #memorycare https://lnkd.in/gvGMMrPw