CrowdScience: Can Singing Improve Our Health?
Singing can lift our spirits, but research suggests it could also benefit our health, improving breathing for people with lung conditions and helping us cope with dementia. Could it even have a preventative effect?
CrowdScience heads to Cheltenham Science Festival in the UK county of Gloucestershire, one of the first places to pioneer this kind of 'social prescribing' - to find out.
Panellists Dr Daisy Fancourt, Senior Research Associate in Behavioural Science, Dr Simon Opher, family doctor and Clinical Lead for Social Prescribing, and Maggie Grady, Director of Music Therapy at charity Mindsong team up with local singers to find out what this much-loved musical pastime can do for us.
- Presenter: Anand Jagatia
- Produced by Jen Whyntie for 主播大秀 World Service
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