Efforts to integrate music into healthcare systems and wellness practices are accelerating
but the biological foundations supporting these initiatives remain underappreciated. As a …

Transition to sustainability is a process that requires change on all levels of society from the
physical to the psychological. This review takes an interdisciplinary view of the landscapes …

Dance has traditionally been viewed from a Eurocentric perspective as a mode of self-
expression that involves the human body moving through space, performed for the purposes …

Entrainment and synchronization play major roles in understanding the emotional effects of
music; thus, we were interested in synchronized responses of concert audiences listening to …

Group singing elevates mood, increases social bonding, and regulates stress. However, the
question remains as to how much of the singer's mood-boost is derived from social aspects …

Humans exhibit what appears to be a unique vocal property: octave equivalence, whereby
adult male voices are, on average, an octave lower in pitch than those of adult females and …

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating sequela of extraordinary traumatic
sufferings that threaten personal health and dramatically attenuate the patient's quality of …

Introduction: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a slow, irreversible, progressive, complex, and fatal
neurodegenerative disorder. Available pharmacological treatment, known for almost two …

Music is an exclusive feature of humankind. It can be considered as a form of universal
communication, only partly comparable to the vocalizations of songbirds. Many trends of …

We compare and contrast the 60 commentaries by 109 authors on the pair of target articles
by Mehr et al. and ourselves. The commentators largely reject Mehr et al.'s fundamental …