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== Possible healing effects ==

== Possible healing effects ==

The recent case of a choir consisting primarily of sufferers from various neurological [[disease]]s and some of their caregivers, friends and associates, has highlighted recent evidence that performing music, or even listening to it, might actually help to heal the [[brain]], in addition to providing helpful emotional support to the disease sufferers. Music appears to stimulate the brain to find supplemental neural pathways to route around a region of damage. Benefits have been observed in patients suffering from [[stroke]], [[Parkinson's Disease]], and other degenerative neurological disorders.<ref name=cnn>Hooper S, "Music a 'mega-vitamin' for the brain," Cable News Network, 2 June 2009. Accesssed 3 June 2009. <http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/02/music.therapy/index.html?eref=rss_latest></ref>

The recent case of a choir consisting primarily of sufferers from various neurological [[disease]]s and some of their caregivers, friends and associates, has highlighted recent evidence that performing music, or even listening to it, might actually help to heal the [[brain]], in addition to providing helpful emotional support to the disease sufferers. Music appears to stimulate the brain to find supplemental neural pathways to route around a region of damage. Benefits have been observed in patients suffering from [[stroke]], [[Parkinson's Disease]], and other degenerative neurological disorders.<ref name=cnn>Hooper S, "Music a 'mega-vitamin' for the brain," Cable News Network, 2 June 2009. Accesssed 3 June 2009. <https://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/02/music.therapy/index.html?eref=rss_latest></ref>

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