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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Proven Link Between Early Music Lessons and a Well-Tuned Brain
A newly published study by Northwestern University researchers suggests that Mom was right when she insisted that you continue music lessons — even after it was clear that a professional music career was not in your future. The study, which will appear in the April issue of Nature Neuroscience, is the first to provide concrete […]
Do you know how music affects YOUR brain?
Of all my blog topics that I write about, the topic of music and the brain seems to generate the most response and the most comments and questions. I can see why too! Everybody loves music although taste in music varies radically from pop, rock and jazz to symphonies, chamber music and opera. Then there […]
Music Therapy and Parkinson's Disease
Music acts as a specific stimulus to obtain motor and emotional responses by combining movement and stimulation of different sensory pathways. Click the link above to learn more. Thus says Gina Shaw, a health and medical writer for Web MD. This is an excerpt of a research study conducted in Italy: BACKGROUND: Modern management of […]
Music and the Brain
Neuroscientists are only just beginning to understand how music affects the brain. We know that music is extremely powerful and that it can elicit hundreds of shades of emotion very quickly. In this blog I will explore the latest findings on the brain and music as well as present some musings of these findings and […]