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Perhaps, you’ve found that exercising or cleaning the house is much easier when listening to catchy pop music?
Or maybe the quality of reading and writing is higher when you have an orchestral instrumental playing in the background? It does appear to many of us that a certain soundtrack can ease the task at hand.Music therapy has been proven to be effective in treating numerous medical disorders such as amnesia, heart disease, stroke, and dementia. The roots of music therapy can be traced back to the US Army, specifically in 1945 when music was used for reconditioning among recovering service members who were in Army hospitals.
“Music therapy is a dynamic treatment method for service members recovering from the invisible wounds of war,” says Hannah Bronson, one of the authors of a new paper titled ‘Music Therapy Treatment of Active Duty Military: An Overview of Intensive Outpatient and Longitudinal Care Programs’. Published in the journal Music Therapy Perspectives, the study highlights how music rebuilds damaged neural connections and aids the release of dopamine to help service members who suffer…
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