Music has the capacity to engage auditory, cognitive, motor, and emotional functions across
cortical and subcortical brain regions and is relatively preserved in aging and dementia …

Music engages an extensive network of auditory, cognitive, motor, and emotional processing
regions in the brain. Coupled with the fact that the emotional and cognitive impact of music is …

Background: Social isolation and loneliness are often present after aphasia and lead to
negative health, social, and physical outcomes. Maintaining social connections after …

The ability to produce words through singing can be preserved in severe aphasia, but the
benefits of group-based singing rehabilitation in aphasia are largely unknown. Our aim was …

During the last decades, there have been major advances in mapping the brain regions that
underlie our ability to perceive, experience, and produce music and how musical training …

Background Acquired brain injury (ABI), such as Parkinson's disease, dementia or stroke,
can result in communication difficulties that lead to an impoverished ability to connect …

Objectives Pilot feasibility randomised controlled trial (RCT) for the singing groups for
people with aphasia (SPA) intervention to assess:(1) the acceptability and feasibility of …

ABSTRACT Background: Melodic Intonation Therapy, a music-based intervention for the
recovery of oral language production in aphasia, has been shown to be particularly effective …

Background In the context of aphasia rehabilitation, there is a perceived need for
interventions with a reduced linguistic demand targeting well-being. Mind-body and creative …

Numerous studies have demonstrated the capacity of choral singing to improve human well-
being and that, in certain sectors of society (including older adults, prison populations …