Music helps depression

IN a study published this year it has been stated that music therapy may help depression.

The study was carried out in Finland, and printed in this country in the British Journal of Psychiatry.

The project included 79 people and subjects who listened to music scored better than those who had not and had only received the normal treatment for depression.

All the people in the study, who were all suffering from depression, were given the normal treatment of counselling and appropriate medication.

But 33 of them received 20 classes with a trained music therapist and took part in drum workshops.

Anxiety and depression were measured after three months in the patients and those who had been given the music therapy were less anxious and depressed than those that hadn't.
But after six months there was no improvements.

It is believed music can help people engage in a way that words can't.

Meanwhile Andy Murray is through to the last 16 of the US Open after beating Feliciano Lopez.

In the second round he was taken to five sets by the Dutchman Robin Haase. He had been two sets down in that match, but managed to fight his way back.

And in the first round he beat Somdev Devvarman from India in three sets, 6-7, 6-2, 6-3.
The best Andy Murray has done in this competition was in 2008 when he reached the final, losing to Roger Federer 6-2, 7-5, 6-2.

Murray has also been in the Australian Open final for the last two years. In 2010 he lost to Roger Federer 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 and this year he was beaten by Novak Djokovic 6-4, 6-2, 6-3.