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Music to Pluck Your Heartstrings

By Alexander Germanis Going back thousands of years, the heart has been directly linked to emotion. Plato, Aristotle, Descartes and other philosophers believed our feelings indeed originated from that vital muscular organ. This was such a popular belief for such a long time the term “heartstring” was only first used in a non-anatomical sense in […]

More Than a Melody: Music Therapy Brings Out the Best in Patients, Caregivers

By Tana Villanueva, General Manager for VITAS® Healthcare Peggy, a music therapist for VITAS Healthcare, strums a G major and lets the chord ring out. “I’m in love–I’m all shook up,” she sings, and she’s not the only one. VITAS patient Patricia, in her 80s and living with dementia, sings every word she remembers and mouths the […]

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