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 partnership program between the UNO School of Music and the UNMC Department of Neurological Sciences is studying how music can help Alzheimer's and dementia patients.

Brain imaging scans show that music engages broader and more diverse neural networks than speech does. Studies have shown music reaches auditory, emotion, motor and memory circuits at the same ...

Perusing the Glastonbury lineup this year, I was struck by two things. First, the sheer number of nostalgia acts, from Avril Lavigne and Keane to Sugababes and Corinne Bailey Rae. Second, the fact ...

New research from UC Santa Cruz is finally giving you the go-ahead to sing in the shower as loud as you want. Because, as it turns out, you probably sound pretty darn good. Psychologists wanted to ...

Music that evokes an emotional response may influence the specificity of memory recall, new research suggests. Investigators found that participants who were shown a series of images of everyday items ...

It happens to the best of us � we�re driving in the car, shopping in the grocery store or cooking dinner in the kitchen and a song comes on that stops us in our tracks, viscerally taking us back ...

November is Alzheimer's awareness month; therefore, I decided to write something optimistic and uplifting about dealing with this grim illness. It needs to be mentioned that Alzheimer's is the most ...

There are songs that can transport us to memorable moments from our past, especially from our adolescence. Those memories are often vivid, conjuring up intense feelings about a first love, a broken ...