Can music improve our health and quality of life?

New research shows the use of music interventions — listening to music, singing, and music therapy — can create significant improvements in mental health, and smaller improvements in physical health-related quality of life.

Lorrie Kubicek • harvard
July 26, 2022 ~3 min

Crafting soldiers’ songs of pain — and yet hope

A project to write songs using individual soldiers’ combat experiences appears to help them overcome haunting memories of war, lessening the impact of trauma held too close for too long.

Alvin Powell • harvard
Feb. 1, 2019 ~11 min


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