Classical Music Is Medicine for Depression

A new study found that personalized music therapy can help patients with treatment-resistant depression.

Researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine discovered that classical music elicited significant improvements in patients who did not respond to multiple standard treatments for their depression.

The results, published in Cell Reports, demonstrated how music, in this case Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, activates a complex network in the brain that helps regulate mood.

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