Music can lift your spirits, calm your nerves, or break your heart in a few notes. It can also nudge what you remember, but ...

Upbeat songs trigger exciting memories while more mellow tunes evoke recollections of romance and sad times, according to new research. A piece of music's energy level and mood impact the memories it ...

Jenny Cook, the staff music therapist for the Songs by Heart Foundation, engages with a memory care resident on Nov. 4, 2022 at Peregrine Senior Living at Shaker in Albany, N.Y. Cook helped train ...

The relationship between music and memory is powerful. Music evokes powerful emotions that then bring back memories. When we listen to a piece of music from years ago, we seem to travel back to that ...

We’ve all heard anecdotes about the “power of music” to reconnect us with moments from our pasts. You may have seen one of several viral YouTube videos of a patient with dementia hearing a piece of ...

It's no surprise that the latest song from Violent Femmes, "Memory," feels like a classic. Frontman Gordon Gano actually wrote it a long time ago. "We even recorded it as a demo many years ago," he ...