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The Healing Power of Music: Why music reaches deeper than words

Music doesn’t just touch one part of the brain – it lights up billions of neurons across many connected regions. This allows a few notes to access memory circuits that contain an entire package: tune, words, and the experiences tied to them.

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Mental Power: Transforming Stroke Recovery Through Visualisation

At the end of the 6 weeks, those who had practiced the visualisation had improved use of their affected limb, in comparison with those who didn’t visualise, who only showed nominal improvement due to physical therapy alone.

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The amazing power of observation

Doing the reps increased strength by 50%. Amazingly, observing the reps increased strength by 32%.

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How Mirror Neurons Can Help Dementia Patients

If you’ve read some of my other blogs you’ll be familiar with the Mirror Neuron…

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