A recent article reported in the Yale Journal of Medicine and Law examined the expanding field of musical therapy. Music therapy is being proposed as a treatment for autism, epilepsy and Alzheimer’s disease, to name a few. Highly individualized programs involving singing, playing instruments, composing music and analyzing songs are used to stimulate the brain in…

I’m getting ready for the October launch of the MomShift profiles (so blog action might be a bit slow!) but I wanted to share what I wrote in today’s Huffington Post – full text below! Working Parents Need Real Choices – Regardless of Test Scores. While paying for my groceries last week, I had one of…

A new study from researchers at Pennsylvania State University and the Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging finds that caregivers and their relatives who suffer from dementia widely disagree on the amount and quality of care both given and received. However, where the caregiver saw the individual as able to direct his or her daily life, a basis of…