A powerful look at how music may affect memory, emotion, and healing, raising the question of whether sound can do more for the brain than we realize.

If you scroll through social media for long enough, you’ll probably find videos claiming that listening to songs tuned to “A 432Hz” can provide an amazing sense of calmness or healing. It’s even ...

HOUSTON — MD Anderson Cancer Center is conducting groundbreaking research to determine whether music can literally heal the body. Researchers are using advanced brain wave mapping technology to study ...

From the moment Mia Schmetter’s grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, the young girl knew she wanted to study the human brain. Schmetter, now a junior studying brain and behavioral ...

The use of sound as medicine is one of humanity’s oldest healing traditions. In ancient Egypt, priests used chanting and ...

If there is a song in your soul, sing it out loud — whether in your car on your morning commute or at karaoke with friends. It’s okay if you are not the next Beyoncé. Making music — even if we aren’t ...

THE MEN who raided Joseph Haydn’s grave hoped that his genius would be written on his skull. A scan of the Austrian composer’s decomposing brain might have been more enlightening. Musical talent does ...