Calling all avid runners out there! We have two amazing fundraising opportunities taking place this Spring and we would love your support!
Continue readingCelebrating Social Prescribing Week
Social Prescribing is a wonderful way of bringing care and communities together. Here we talk more about it and how music can play an important role.
Continue readingHow does a song come into our life?
At Music for my Mind we spend a lot of time thinking about music, and specifically about the moments in a person’s life that they hear music. Now we look at how we come across music, where we find it, or more often, how it finds us.
Continue readingWedding songs
What makes a song memorable: how does it pull the heartstrings, stir emotion, and generally connect to its listeners. On Valentine’s Day, we focus on love songs and more specifically, the song a couple choses as their first dance at their wedding.
Continue reading‘Playlist for Dreamers’
As we dream an exciting future, our team curated a playlist to go along with that. Enjoy our ‘Playlist for Dreamers’.
Continue readingMFMM’s 2021 Roundup
2021 was an incredibly busy year for Music for my Mind, and we want to share with you some of the highlights of our work!
This year saw the long awaited launch of the test version of our Playlist Maker App, an incredibly exciting way to create treasured personalised playlists for the people you love.
Continue readingUnderstanding Spotify and its recommendation tool
You might already have experience with Spotify or maybe you came accross it in our Playlist Maker app. Either way, we thought it would be useful to explain this facet of our work that comes up over and over again, but remains for many a bit of a mystery as to how it actually works: Spotify.
Continue readingWillow Court care home receive Covid Hero Award
This week we would love to congratulate our friends over at Willow Court, Aldwickbury Crescent, who have just been highly commended in the Covid Hero Awards!
Continue readingA Focus on the Reminiscence Bump – Publication.
Part 5 of our blog-series looks at writing and publishing the paper and how we can enact this information in other areas of MFMM’s research.
Continue readingA Focus on the Reminiscence Bump – Analysis.
Part 4 of our blog-series looks at drafting the paper, our pitfalls and failings, it coming together and the final discovery (and why this is important).
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