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Study Music… Yay or Nay?

September 2, 2026 Ulia Lopatin

What’s better for studying? Complete silence, or should you turn the music UP? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. So far, research has been mixed… but Lindsey Cooke and team from Edith Cowan University listened more closely! They surveyed over two-hundred students on their music

Musical Medicine

May 27, 2026 Eirene Ednacot

Medicine from SOUND? That’s music to my ears. This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. How will non-medication dementia treatments, like music listening, play out? This challenge struck a chord with Naomi Thompson and team from Anglia Ruskin University. At dementia-specialized care centers, music therapists trained staff