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Recreational music-making modulates natural killer cell activity, cytokines, and mood states in corporate employees
Masatada Wachi, Masahiro Koyama, Masanori Utsuyama, Barry B. Bittman, Masanobu Kitagawa, Katsuiku Hirokawa
Improving Mood States in First Year Nursing Students
Recreational Music-making: An Integrative Group Intervention for Reducing Burnout and Improving Mood States in First Year Associate Degree Nursing Students: Insights and Economic Impact Barry B. Bittman MD; Cherie Snyder MSS, MA; Karl T. Bruhn;...
Recreational Music-Making: A Cost-Effective Group Interdisciplinary Strategy for Reducing Burnout
A Cost-Effective Group Interdisciplinary Strategy for Reducing Burnout and Improving Mood States in Long-Term Care Workers Barry Bittman, MD, Karl T. Bruhn, Christine Stevens, MSW, MT-BC, James Westengard, and Paul O. Umbach, MA
Testing The Power Of Music-Making in Seniors
BARRY B. BITTMAN, MD, is chief executive officer of Mind-BodyWellness Center, Meadville, Pa.; KARL T. BRUHN, is a music consultant of Bruhn & Associates,Anaheim, Calif.; PhILIP B.LIM, MT-BC, is music instructor at Greene Music, San Diego; ANGELA NEVE,...
Recreational Music-Making Modulates the Human Stress Response
Recreational music-making modulates the human stress response: a preliminary individualized gene expression strategy Barry Bittman , Lee Berk, Mark Shannon, Muhammad Sharaf, Jim Westengard , Karl J. Guegler, David W. Ruff
Composite Effects of Group Drumming
Composite Effects of Group Drumming Music Therapy on Modulation of Neuroendocrine-Immune Parameters in Normal Subjects Barry B. Bittman, MD, Lee S. Berk, MPH, DrPH, David L. Felten, MD, PhD, James Westengard, BS, O. Carl Simonton, MD, James Pappas,...

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This section of the Recreational Music Making Web site documents the scientific foundations for more fully understanding the benefits of playing a musical instrument. With a focus on published peer-reviewed scientific research studies, we offer an extraordinary opportunity to discover a rational basis for what our grandmothers knew all along... playing a musical instrument is good for your health!

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Recreational music-making modulates natural killer cell activity, cytokines, and mood states in corporate employees

Masatada Wachi, Masahiro Koyama, Masanori Utsuyama, Barry B. Bittman, Masanobu Kitagawa, Katsuiku Hirokawa

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Recreational music-making modulates natural killer cell activity, cytokines, and mood states in corporate employees

Masatada Wachi, Masahiro Koyama, Masanori Utsuyama, Barry B. Bittman, Masanobu Kitagawa, Katsuiku Hirokawa

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Recreational Music-Making Modulates the Human Stress Response

Recreational music-making modulates the human stress response: a preliminary individualized gene expression strategy Barry Bittman , Lee Berk, Mark Shannon, Muhammad Sharaf, Jim Westengard , Karl J. Guegler, David W. Ruff

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