Monday, 20 January 2025

Music as Medicine


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Music therapy helped Joni Mitchell recover from a stroke –

theguardian.com › books › jan 18 ›

Music As Medicine by Daniel Levitin.

'She couldn't walk, she couldn't talk': music therapy helped Joni Mitchell recover from a stroke –

Could it ward off depression and dementia too ...

youtube.com/watch?v=auleXYJPeok

In Oliver Sacks documentary Alive Inside, they play [1940s bandleader] Cab Calloway for Henry Dryer, a patient at a Brooklyn nursing home,” Daniel Levitin recalls. it, “In some sense Henry is restored to himself …

youtube.com/watch?v=IaB5Egej0TQ

Levitin writes about music helping treat people with Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, PTSD, depression, flesh wounds and back pain...

youtube.com/watch?v=oqqmisiod-c

What worked for him? An album called Slow Circle by Alex De Grassi (solo acoustic guitar), Sunday at the Village Vanguard by the Bill Evans Trio (classic jazz), a spot of Enya.

youtube.com/watch?v=7wfYIMyS_dI&list=RDEMuBqq
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3 comments:

  1. Dengie10122 January 2025 at 02:59

    It wont be endorsed by the World Health Organisation, because it cures people.
    To find out the true intentions of the WHO follow the link.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5yQjTX8CQA

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  2. Dengie10122 January 2025 at 04:31

    Music soothes the soul,even in the savage beast.
    In the link below a beautiful soul came to warn humanity, she has passed now but is still with us. Her voice and message is music to our ears.
    https://archive.org/details/she-died-in-2020-trying-to-get-this-out-to-the-world-hear-her-words-brandy-vaughan.

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  3. Dengie10122 January 2025 at 13:57

    Thank you for the beautiful Enya song, wonderful woman wonderful voice.
    A dose of my medicine for you, for all the work you do.Thanks.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMmTkKz60W8

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