Ultrasound opens the brain’s barrier to Alzheimer’s drugs in tiny trials
About 260 people with Alzheimer’s have had the procedure across 27 studies, none of them randomized, and the most striking result so far comes…
Personalized music lowered depression and anxiety after stroke in Milan
In a 150-patient trial, an hour a day of self-chosen Italian vocal music on a tablet cut depression, anxiety and insomnia scores on the…
One night of quiet road noise stiffens blood vessels by morning
In 74 healthy adults sleeping in their own beds, 30 to 60 simulated traffic pass-bys at 41 to 44 dB, below WHO night limits,…
Blocking one signal turns ear support cells into hair cells
Tel Aviv University and colleagues report in Science Advances that inhibiting the Notch pathway converts cochlear supporting cells into the sensory cells mammals cannot…
What music therapy, music medicine and sound healing each mean
Six things get sold under the word “sound”: a licensed clinical profession, a tablet of songs, a gong, a vibrating bed, a 40 Hz…
Music therapy lowered cravings in a 16-person addiction pilot
Anglia Ruskin researchers recorded EEG across six weekly sessions at a London addiction service; cravings dropped after sessions and frontal beta activity fell versus…
Two weeks left to hear Salisbury Cathedral’s Singing Gallery
“Joyful Noise” closes October 25; Emeka Ogboh’s choir sings from the medieval gallery above the west doors, and Deaf artist Christine Sun Kim makes…
Seniors who kept playing an instrument held onto working memory
Kyoto University followed adults who started lessons at an average age of 73; four years on, those who quit lost verbal working memory and…
A humpback’s song is shaped by the dive that carries it
Suction-cup tags on 16 singing males off Maui mapped whole songs onto whole dives for the first time, and some singers kept going for…
How your ear turns air pressure into perception
From eardrum to a coiled piano keyboard inside the skull, with 15,000 hair cells that do not grow back, and a 2026 finding that…
UC Irvine hosts a two-day music and medicine conference October 28
HARMONICS 2026 brings MedRhythms CEO Brian Harris and flutist Emi Ferguson to the UCI Student Center, with 14 CMTE and 9 CME credits for…
Bill Fontana made Grace Cathedral listen to San Francisco
For nearly 13 weeks this summer, sensors on the carillon and microphones inside silent organ pipes turned the building into an instrument played by…
The 40 Hz Alzheimer’s bet gets its verdict before year end
Cognito Therapeutics’ 670-patient HOPE trial of a flickering, humming headset reads out by December, and every efficacy number so far comes from 76 people.
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