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Entries Tagged as 'Music and the Brain'

The Brain and Music: A Therapeutic Duet

February 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment

“Zip-a-dee doo dah, Zip-a-dee-ay …”
–A. Wrubel, R. Gilbert
“Do-wah diddy-diddy dum diddy-do …”
–The Moffats
“Super-cali-fragilistic-expialidocious …”
–The Sherman Brothers
“What an odd thing it is to see an entire species–billions of people–playing with, listening to, meaningless tonal patterns, occupied and preoccupied for much of their time by what they call ‘music.”‘
–Oliver Sacks, [...]

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Music Can Heal the Brain

January 31st, 2010 · 2 Comments

Over the years, researchers have studied the various effects of music on human health, intelligence, and well-being, but more recently, researchers came to fascinating conclusions regarding music’s medicinal qualities. Music’s various positive benefits reach diverse groups of people: adolescents involved with music perform better in school , music increases exercise endurance by up to [...]

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Understanding Brain Waves: Tune Your Brain

January 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment

They say that the brain is the last unexplored frontier, but over the last decade or two, much research has been conducted that documents how sound and vibration impact the brain in a very positive way.
The following was found on today’s “The Daily Turn-on.” Enjoy!
Did you know you can actually charge up your central [...]

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Music and the Brain: Meet Melody Gardot

January 25th, 2010 · No Comments

This morning on CBS Sunday Morning there was a fabulous, inspiring, uplifting story!  Definitely wanted to share this with all my readers!
Her sultry voice has made Melody Gardot an international sensation. Her latest album, “My One and Only Thrill,” has dazzled critics in the U.S., and sold more than half a million copies in Europe.
It’s [...]

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Your Brain on Music: A video

January 20th, 2010 · No Comments

The research team showed that music engages the areas of the brain involved with paying attention, making predictions and updating the event in memory. Peak brain activity occurred during a short period of silence between musical movements—when seemingly nothing was happening.
Beyond understanding the process of listening to music, their work has far-reaching implications for how [...]

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Gift of music thrills Holy Angels

January 18th, 2010 · No Comments

New program enables people with disabilities to perform with even the slightest motion.
The musical instrument is invisible – played by hand movements or nods of the head.
Sounds showering the air may be like the sweet purr of a harp or a full orchestra’s blast.
The players are residents of Belmont-based Holy Angels, a center for children [...]

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Mental Illness and Art

January 2nd, 2010 · No Comments

Many famous composers, performers and artists were definitively diagnosed with a serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia.  Robert Schumann died in an “asylum” in Germany after attempting suicide by jumping off a bridge into the Rhine river.  Many composers suffered from severe depression and alcoholism.  These illnesses have no correlation with intelligence or talent.
Today I [...]

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Cleveland Clinic researchers find music can have a soothing effect during brain surgery

December 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment

If you’ve ever come home after a long day and turned on, say, Brahms to relax, or jacked up the volume on Queen’s “We Are the Champions” to get psyched for a workout, you know that music can change your mood.
Research on music and the brain has shown that it can reduce stress, alleviate [...]

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Your brain on Christmas music

December 25th, 2009 · No Comments

If you love Christmas music (like I do!) then Christmas music probably makes your brain light up and makes your face smile, your feet dance and your endorphins flow. Why? Because any music that we have positive associations with, that brings back positive memories or that energizes us, is clearly having a positive [...]

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Music Releases Endorphins in the Brain

December 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Everyone knows that music makes them feel better, but apparently, music immediately after surgery is even more powerful than previously known. today I came across this article: By Denise DadorLOS ANGELES (KABC) — A local hospital takes the healing properties of music right to the patients.
She’s in the hospital, but Carol Starks feels she’s being [...]

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Can Music Improve your test scores?

November 27th, 2009 · No Comments

So many people ask me this and it’s a great questions! After all the info came out on the “Mozart Effect” people were getting really excited about improving their intelligence and their test scores with music! Here is what one of the scientific studies had to say about it:
Improve your vocabulary with music!
In [...]

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Tags: Music and the Brain · Music and the Mind-Body · The Mozart Effect...why Mozart?

Brain can “close eyes” to allow you to listen more carefully to music

November 10th, 2009 · No Comments

Brain ‘closes eyes’ to hear music
Our brains can turn down our ability to see to help them listen even harder to music and complex sounds, say experts.
A US study of 20 non-musicians and 20 musical conductors found both groups diverted brain activity away from visual areas during listening tasks.
Scans showed activity fell in these areas [...]

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Understanding the Brain and the Music Cortex

September 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Do you know about “The Music Cortex”
Music and the brain! What could be more fascinating? The more we know about how music affects the brain, the more we can incorporate music into our wellness and healing practices. The following article is a fascinating; a first-person account of music and the brain. [...]

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Music and Your Voculabulary

September 6th, 2009 · No Comments

In 1982, researchers from the University of North Texas performed a three-way test on postgraduate students to see if music could help in memorizing vocabulary words. The students were divided into three groups. Each group was given three tests – a pretest, a posttest, and a test a week after the first two tests. All [...]

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Can Mozart Make you Smarter?

July 25th, 2009 · No Comments

An expert addresses this very controversial question: “Can Mozart Make You Smarter?”

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Music, the Brain, and School Performance

June 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Music, the Brain, and Academic Performance

June 21, 2009
Music affects many areas of brain function
by Marjorie H. Weil
Recently the Albion School District announced that, beginning this fall, all fifth- through 12th-graders would be required to take band or choir. Why? Because statistics show that students who do so perform better academically, have higher SAT scores, are [...]

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