The haunting melodies that bring tears to our eyes and the disorganized thoughts that characterize psychosis might seem worlds apart. Yet emerging research suggests these disparate experiences may ...

Music can be used as a tool for emotional empowerment, such as enhanced mood and motivation. Music has an immediate effect on us. It has a unique power to elicit moments of intense emotional reactions ...

Magsamen is the Founder and Director of the International Arts + Mind Lab Center for Applied Neuroaesthetics at Johns Hopkins University. She is the co-author with Ivy Ross of Your Brain on Art: How ...

Earlier this year, we asked a group of older adults what music they listened to when feeling lonely, and why. We discovered music was a powerful coping mechanism and source of escapism. Other studies ...

Nurse Rod Salaysay works with all kinds of instruments in the hospital: a thermometer, a stethoscope and sometimes his guitar and ukulele. In the recovery unit of UC San Diego Health, Salaysay helps ...

A new study found that people who regularly used cocaine or heroin in the past experience music in a different way. This might seem strange, but it all has to do with dopamine. Part of what makes ...