A newly published study from Mexico reports repeated listening to certain classical works helps ease the debilitating symptoms of clinical depression. “Music offers a simple and elegant way to treat anhedonia, the loss of pleasures in daily activities,” the research team, led by Miguel-Angel Mayoral-Chavez of the University of Oaxaca, reports in the journal The Arts in Psychotherapy. (This summary is based on the article published by Tom Jacobs on the journalism website Miller-McCune. The article contains links to various sources, including a site to download the initial study findings from The Arts in Psychotherapy.)