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From the NY Times:  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/well/music-therapy-treatment-stress.html?campaign_id=34&emc=edit_sc_20210413&instance_id=29168&nl=science-times&regi_id=137764409&segment_id=55460&te=1&user_id=e7ce617addfc9551bcae3b7539221c8d

 

Music therapy is increasingly used to help patients cope with stress and promote healing.  From the article:

 

The healing power of music — lauded by philosophers from Aristotle and Pythagoras to Pete Seeger — is now being validated by medical research. It is used in targeted treatments for asthma, autism, depression and more, including brain disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy and stroke.

 

A review of 400 research papers conducted by Daniel J. Levitin at McGill University in 2013 concluded that “listening to music was more effective than prescription drugs in reducing anxiety prior to surgery."

 

Music has also been used successfully to support recovery after surgery. A study published in The Lancet in 2015 reported that music reduced postoperative pain and anxiety and lessened the need for anti-anxiety drugs. Curiously, they also found that music was effective even when patients were under general anesthesia.

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“Nature is pleased with simplicity.”  Isaac Newton

"As neither the enjoyment nor the capacity of producing musical notes are faculties of the least use to man...they must be ranked among the most mysterious with which he is endowed."  Charles Darwin - The Descent of Man

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