Changing my career from a full time non-profit
accountant and software trainer to a therapeutic musician eight years ago has
been a huge positive influence on my good health and well-being. I
enjoyed studying to become a Certified Clinical Musician and keep up with the
latest research on music not only for patients but also for the therapeutic
musician.
A recent collaborative research study on highly
empathic people and music found evidence
supporting a neural account of the music-empathy connection. Also, it is among
the first to use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to explore how
empathy affects the way we perceive music.
"Those who deeply grasp the pain or joy of other
people and display “higher empathic concern” process music differently in their
brains, according to a new study by researchers at Southern Methodist
University and UCLA. Their paper, “Neurophysiological Effects of Trait Empathy
in Music Listening,” was recently published in the journal Frontiers in
Behavioral Neuroscience."
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