Tweet The many applications of music for healing: hospice settings, coma, stroke and rehab of all kinds. Enjoy this fabulous story: Anna Jenkins wears a solemn expression while she gracefully plucks the strings on her harp. The notes fill the room and coat it with an aura of peace. Next to her, in a hospital […]
Entries Tagged as 'music and the brain'
Musicians set the tone for healing
May 31st, 2007 · No Comments · how the brain works, music and the brain
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Born with a ‘music module’?
May 15th, 2007 · No Comments · how the brain works, music and the brain
Tweet This is an excerpt from a fascinating interview: JEFFREY BROWN: Music, of course, comes in many forms and appears to have been part of every age and every known culture. There’s a continuing debate among scientists as to music’s exact role in human evolution. But Levitin believes that the brain itself has evolved to […]
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Music, the Brain, and Exercise
April 30th, 2007 · No Comments · how the brain works, music and the brain
Tweet “It’s no secret that exercise improves mood, but new research suggests that working out to music may give exercisers a cognitive boost.Listening to music while exercising helped to increase scores on a verbal fluency test among cardiac rehabilitation patients.” Thus says a study from 2004 as cited in Science Daily. “This is the first […]
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Western and Chinese Music: Brain Activity
February 26th, 2007 · No Comments · music and the brain
Tweet Have you ever wondered how the brain responds to familiar-sounding Western music, versus unfamiliar music from other cultures, i.e. Chinese music? This is the kind of thing that I think is fascinating and now I’ve recently discovered a great site called www.cognews.com. On this site there was a press release of some very interesting […]
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The Infant Brain
February 4th, 2007 · No Comments · how the brain works, music and the brain
Tweet Did you know that the infant brain can be affected before birth by playing classical music and singing to the unborn child? It’s true. The brain is the only organ that can actually be positively affected during pregnancy. The other organs, lungs, stomachs, hearts, ovaries, etc., are pretty much on a genetically pre-determined path […]
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