Stroke victims who can no longer speak may now be able to regain their ability to communicate through singing, according to a recent Harvard Medical School study. HMS professor Gottfried Schlaug and ...

Debra Meyerson was hiking near Lake Tahoe 15 months ago when a stroke destroyed part of the left side of her brain, leaving her literally speechless. It happens to more than 150,000 Americans a year.

Stroke patients who struggle to communicate may regain their abilities by singing in a choir, a new study suggests. Music therapy is not a new concept, but the use of singing – particularly choral ...

Comfortable retirement living in sunny California abruptly came to an end for Lynn Huntington in December 2005 when her retired civil- engineer husband, Don, now 72, had a massive stroke. Like 20 ...

Emily Bachert plays guitar during a music therapy session with Bob Lominska. Lominska's wife, Joy Lominska, is at left. Soft southern light pours through the window as Bob Lominska sits at one end of ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. Particularly promising, is a type of treatment called melodic intonation therapy, ...

Things just didn’t smell right to Allison Woyiwada and this wasn’t just a passing odour, it was the disgusting, intense stink of garbage. The smell filled her nose when no one else could detect it, so ...

When U.S. congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot last January in a parking lot in Tuscon, the bullet entered just over her left eye, travelled the length of the left hemisphere of her brain, and ...

The children and youth that Laurel Fontaine volunteers with at her North Attleboro church adore her. And who wouldn't? She's got a lot to say, she has a beautiful smile and a great sense of humor, and ...