Harperhall Music Therapy

15/04/2026

14/04/2026

Just some of the interdisciplinary connections and collaborations that take place in Music Therapy alongside working closely with Service Users and their families, and there are many more. What else would you add?

13/04/2026

Let's shine a light on Music Therapy! This week, until the 15th of April, is Music Therapy Week in the UK.

Anna our music therapist, has been providing individual, group and environmental music therapy sessions for the hospice since 2013. The service has grown over this time from half a day a fortnight to 2 days a week.

To find out more about this service, please check out the website at https://kilbrydehospice.org.uk/supporting-you/music-therapy/ or you can find out all about Music Therapy on the British Association for Music Therapy website at https://www.bamt.org/

12/04/2026

Music Therapy is an evidence-based intervention and an Allied Health Profession. There is a substantial evidence base for the practice and benefits of the Music Therapy profession across Client populations.

10/04/2026

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02/03/2026

22/11/2025

Moving to musical rhythm significantly improves gait and other motor functions compared to self-paced movement in neurorehabilitation.

Using brain network science, a recent collaborative study between researchers at the University of Toronto Music and Health Research Collaboratory (MaHRC) and Wake Forest University sheds new light on why this occurs:

✨ Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation (RAS)® optimizes how neurons talk to each other and harnesses them into a more closely connected and well synchronized brain network in the Basal Ganglia, a critical region for rehabilitation in Parkinson’s disease. Stable, tightly coupled, and efficient neural connections are necessary engines to improve timing, consistency, and spatial control of movement. This evidence of strong plasticity in connectivity in neural networks is key in understanding why music/rhythm based Neurologic Music Therapy® interventions are powerful neuromodulatory tools.

You can read the full paper here:
Lavigne S, Burdette J, Bahrami M, Laurien P, Lyday R, Thaut MH. 2025. Altered
basal ganglia networks topology associated with auditory-motor
synchronization. Brain & Behavior, doi.org/10.1002/brb3.70695
Available at: nmtacademy.co/research-publications/

Additional studies:
Pranjic M, Braun Janzen T, Vuksic N, Thaut MH. 2024. From sound to
movement: Mapping neural mechanisms of auditory-motor entrainment
and synchronization. Brain Sciences, doi.org/10.3390/brainsci14111063
Koshimori Y, Thaut MH. 2023. Rhythmic auditory stimulation as potential
neuromodulator for Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson and Related Disorders,
doi.org/10.1016/j.parkreldis.2023.105459

06/10/2025

Hospice Care is more than you think. Music therapy is an established service at Kilbryde Hospice. Our music therapist has been providing emotional support to our patients, family members and carers for over 12 years.

This Hospice Care Week, we wanted to share that as part of our day service programme, we collaborate with our local nursery and run an Intergenerational Music Therapy Group!

Every 2 weeks, around 8 nursery children visit our day service patients and join in with singing and movement games. The joy making music together brings for all involved is clear to see from our photos.


Hospice UK

02/10/2025

Some excellent listening.

In case you missed it: have you listened to any of the BBC Radio 3 series launched last week, How Music Heals? If so, what did you think?

Each episode, five in total, explores different approaches to Music Therapy in group settings.

This is a link to the first episode, and from there you can browse and listen to all five: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002jfr5

20/08/2025

At Kilbryde Hospice, we know that healing doesn’t always come through medicine—sometimes, it comes through music.

Our Music Therapy programme helps patients:
✔️ Ease anxiety, pain, and emotional distress
✔️ Reconnect with memories and moments
✔️ Express what cannot be spoken aloud

For families, those small sparks of joy—a hum, a tear, a smile—are priceless.
Music therapy is only possible thanks to donations and legacy gifts. Will you help keep these moments alive?

🌿 Leave a gift that helps people be heard: https://kilbrydehospice.org.uk/donate/

09/08/2025

A great article.

Music can uplift our mood, foster connection, and even enhance cognitive function.

22/07/2025

💎 Words of wisdom from one of the patrons of EMTC2025 - Christopher Bailey, Arts and Health, WHO.

Let’s continue the discussion about the benefits of music therapy at the conference!