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Virginia’s Williamsburg Symphony has announced a June 9 lecture/concert about music and medicine at the Kimball Theatre in Williamsburg, focusing on the beneficial and therapeutic effects of music on health and disease. Participants at the 90-minute event will include neurologist Kamal Chémali; Jennifer Debiec Lawson, principal flutist with the Williamsburg Symphony Orchestra; and pianist Prisca Benoit. Topics covered will include the effect of music in reactivating parts of the brain damaged by disease; improving language in stroke patients; and the use of music to improve gait stability, blood pressure, pain levels, anxiety, and cognition.
Posted June 8, 2017
