“There’s just something about music — particularly live music — that excites and activates the body; Music very much has a way of enhancing quality of life and can, in addition, promote recovery.”

Joanne Loewy, the study’s lead author, director of the Beth Israel Medical Center’s Louis Armstrong center and co-editor of the journal Music and Medicine.  She with music therapists and psychologists investigating music in medicine for dealing with pain, depression and possibly Alzheimer’s.