All articles tagged sound

Anxiety — that feeling of dread, fear, worry and panic — is certainly nothing new. Hippocrates wrote about it in the fourth century BCE. As did Søren Kierkegaard in the 1860s. And Sigmund Freud addressed the disorder in 1926. However,...

A music therapist describes how improvising songs can open a vital channel of communication in palliative care. Many patients talk about feelings of powerlessness and a silence in which they become invisible. Photograph: Rex Features All that was dear to...

How songs can help people whose minds are deteriorating. OLGA KHAZAN One day in 2006, New York social worker Dan Cohen realized that with today's devices, all of his favorite music—he's a fan of '60s rock—is at his fingertips, but...