The Doctor Is In (Your Pocket): How Apps Are Harnessing Music’s Healing Powers A new crop of startups are combining science and sound to help people to self-medicate with music on an unprecedented scale. While new findings coming out of labs continue to help us learn more about the health-related effects of music, the notion in itself is not new. Rhythm and melody have been part of ritualistic healing practices as far back as ancient times. NMT (neurologic music therapy ) as practiced today is based on two main principles. The first is music’s ability to stimulate a whole range of different parts of the brain. “There’s no other stimulus on earth that provides such a global activation of our brains as music,” Harris says. The second is that music helps with neuroplasticity, that is, the way our brains constantly create new connections and strengthen old connections throughout our lives. Harris says research has even proven that music helps the brain heal itself by creating these new connections. See http://ift.tt/2exPNev
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