Music can serve a dual purpose in clinical care: It can help raise blood pressure in some settings and ease patient anxiety before procedures such as catheterization. Its effects are broad, engaging the brain’s reward circuitry, auditory cortex, hippocampus, and motor regions at the same time. That wide reach is why music therapy is being studied across a range of conditions, from Parkinson’s disease and cancer to poststroke aphasia and major depression, depending on how it is delivered, the setting, and the intended clinical goal.
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