A growing body of scientific evidence shows that interventions based on music may be helpful in managing health conditions. For example, preliminary research suggests that music-based interventions may be helpful for anxiety, depressive symptoms, and pain associated with a variety of health conditions.
How might music work? Research findings suggest that it may affect the brain in ways that may help promote health and manage disease symptoms. Performing or listening to music activates a variety of structures in the brain that are involved in thinking, sensation, movement, and emotion. These brain effects may have physical and psychological benefits.
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