Singing strikes chord with Parkinson’s

Updated June 28 2018 - 1:23pm, first published October 2 2017 - 12:00am
SWEET SOUNDS – Queensland Conservatorium of Music Research Centre songbird Dr Yoon Irons demonstrates the pure joy of singing for wellbeing. Photo: Heather Grant-Campbell
SWEET SOUNDS – Queensland Conservatorium of Music Research Centre songbird Dr Yoon Irons demonstrates the pure joy of singing for wellbeing. Photo: Heather Grant-Campbell

IT'S long been said that laughter is good medicine, but Griffith University’s Queensland Conser­-­vatorium of Music Research Centre is tuning into the way singing may improve some physical and psychological impacts of Parkinson’s disease.

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