Music is a powerful intervention with many brain injuries and disorders such as stroke, Parkinson’s and dementia. But sometimes, the injury is so severe that the patient is declared “brain dead.” Give yourself and your children the best possibility to survive a fatal brain injury…wear a helmet!!
Entries Tagged as 'Music and the Brain'
Music and Brain Injury: Sometimes it’s too late
March 18th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Music and the Brain
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Music and the Brain: The 8th Cranial Nerve
March 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Brain and Music Cortex, Music and the Brain
Everyday neauroscientists are learning more about the brain and how music affects the brain. One thing we’ve known for awhile is that it enters the brain through the 8th cranial nerve. But how does knowledge improve your surgical experience?
Music and Coma
February 26th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Music and the Brain
We’ve all known someone in a coma. The question is always “can they really hear me or hear music playing?” My answer, based on hundreds of anecdotal accounts is a resounding “yes!”
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Can Music Improve Test Scores?
January 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Classical Music, Don Campbell, Music and the Brain
Improving Test Scores with Music When I go out to speak to teachers, parents, and education administrators, I usually tell them that a simple way students can improve test scores is by listening to certain types of music such as Mozart’s Sonata for Two Piano’s in D Major before taking a test. This type of music […]
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Brain Tumors and Music: This CD could help you.
January 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Music and the Brain
Being dignosed with a brain tumor is a terrifying thing. This recent news story brings hope to those who have experienced this traumatic news.
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The Musical Brain
December 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Music and the Brain
by Dr. Arthur HarveyFrom recent brain research on learning styles, it has been estimated that 80-90% of what is experienced and learned is nonverbal, with what sometimes is described as a “right-brain” mode of processing. We know that for most children and many adults, music is a “right-brain” dominant activity. Based upon that, music may […]
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Music Power, and the Brain
December 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Music and the Brain
Music Power, and the Brain A man named Laurence O’Donnell has written a fascinating paper. and subsuquently a website called “Music Power.” I highly recommend that you check out both. He writes a lot about music and the brain. One thing he says is “Responses to music are easy to be detected in the human […]
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Music and Epilepsy: Is there a Connection?
November 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Music and the Brain
Music and Epilepsy Using the sound of her violin, concert violinist Martha Curtis teaches hope, and the power to overcome anything. Curtis has suffered from epilepsy her entire life, even having seizures on the biggest concert stages in the world. 15 years ago, Curtis put her career and love for music on the line, undergoing […]
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