India, June 12 -- A new review suggests that music therapy may offer meaningful benefits for people living with neurological, psychiatric, and chronic health conditions, but its wider adoption in clinical practice continues to be limited by workforce shortages, inconsistent standards, and gaps in research.
Published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, the review describes music therapy as a safe, person-centered intervention that bridges neuroscience, medicine, and the humanities, with the strongest evidence seen in dementia care. Researchers report that music-based interventions can help manage symptoms across a wide range of conditions, including Parkinson's disease, stroke, traumatic brain injury, schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorder...