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

Your brain’s habit of replaying the same song on a loop is not a glitch so much as a side effect of how memory, reward and ...

But there's little evidence that listening to the whole song will get rid of an earworm. Research suggests that listening to ...

Just a few chords from a song can instantly transport you back to a loved one’s funeral or your graduation day. This demonstrates that music is far more than mere background noise; it serves as a ...

Music has certainly had that effect on me. When my husband passed away unexpectedly earlier this year, for many days, I felt frozen, too much in shock and too traumatized to cry. Hearing the John ...

A partnership program between the UNO School of Music and the UNMC Department of Neurological Sciences is studying how music can help Alzheimer's and dementia patients.

The performers enter Sundin Music Hall arm in arm, lavender scarves draped around their pressed white shirts. It’s nearly showtime, but the eager singers—a constellation of community members, some ...