Group Drumming An Important Strategy to Improve Mood

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There is more information coming out about the specific music strategies highlighted in the latest Cochrane Library Review. Drumming was one of the strategies they found that significantly reduced symptoms of depression for psychiatric patients. I found it most interesting that drumming alone was not as powerful as drumming paired with teaching about the purpose of the drumming and music therapy! The full story is here.  

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