Healing rhythms

• Autores: Emma Young
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3038, 2015, págs. 36-39
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In a hospital in north London, a group of adults with mental health problems improvise a song while listening to a low-pitched hum. In a consulting suite in New York City, a cancer patient gets her chemotherapy and a quartz crystal singing bowl "treatment" at the same time. At kindergarten, a child with autism is taught new words by hearing them sung. At a care home for the elderly, people with dementia are played old-time tunes to help them recover lost memories. Across the Western world, music therapy is becoming increasingly common. Although some treatments may seem a bit New Age, the idea has an instinctive appeal to many. Here, Young examines how the sound affect one's minds and bodies and how music stand up as a treatment for medical disorders.