All In The Mind

This week - the power of music to heal. Guest BBC broadcaster Jane Hanson takes you to some of the cutting edge clinics throughout the world where mainstream is medicine is recognising the therapeutic potential of music. From a sports hospital in Germany to clinics in Mysore, India, and finally to the famous Beth Abraham hospital in New York, where patients with motor impaired and degenerative illnesses have access to their own state-of-the-art recording studio as part of their treatment!

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Further Information

The Power of Music (BBC World Service series website)
Includes more relevant links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/144_powerofmusic/

Music on Your Mind
Broadcast on All in the Mind in August 2002
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/mind/s644913.htm

Music and Intelligence: The Debate Continues
Broadcast on All in the Mind in June 2004
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/mind/stories/s1127426.htm