How do we hear, and how does hearing affect how we play music? These questions are central to the work of Nikolas Alejandro ...

Professor Paul Colombo has studied music-based mentoring, memory, and the benefits of music training over the course of his ...

The funding will support research at Emory’s Brain Health Institute, where scientists are studying whether music can help ...

As emotions rise and fall in everyday life, your brain keeps up, constantly adjusting. These transitions between feelings—like joy, sadness, or fear—aren’t just random reactions. They’re part of a ...

Music can lift your spirits, calm your nerves, or break your heart in a few notes. It can also nudge what you remember, but ...

A brain-healthy lifestyle includes not only physical wellness and nutrition, but also emotional well-being, social connection ...

Listening to music can lift mood and motivation, but does it really improve cognition? A psychiatrist explains how music ...

The relationship between music and the human brain has fascinated neuroscientists for decades. While meditation has long been celebrated for its cognitive benefits, recent neurological research ...

A small group of people experience no pleasure from music despite normal hearing and intact emotions. Brain imaging reveals ...

A multi-center randomized controlled trial with critically ill adults aged 50 years and older admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) found that twice-daily slow-tempo music (60 to 80 beats per minute ...

A new imaging study showed that listening to favorite music affects the function of the brain's opioid system. A new imaging study by the Turku PET Centre in Finland showed that listening to favorite ...