Music and the Brain
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Music and the Brain
This three-episode podcast series takes a deep dive into some of the ways music affects your body and how this reaction can be beneficial for you. If you enjoy learning about or listening to music, this podcast might be beneficial to you. Episode 1 focuses on music therapy and how it benefits patien...
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23 episódios3. How is Music Used at Porter's?
In episode 3 of music and the brain, I focus on my community at Miss Porter’s School and highlighting the voices of people in my community. I speak wi...
2. How does Music Affect your Brain and Body?
How does music affect the brain? How does music affect the body? How does music affect your mood? In episode 2 of Music and the Brain, these questions...
1. What Is Music Therapy?
What is music therapy? How does it work? How come I've never heard of it? In episode 1 of Music and the Brain, these questions get answered as I chat...
The Future of Music
Host Steve Mencher talks with Tod Machover, composer and Director, Professor of Music and Media, and Director of the Opera of the Future Group at MIT.
Music Therapy, Alzheimer’s and Post-Traumatic Stress (Dr. Deforia Lane)
Host Steve Mencher talks with Dr. Deforia Lane, Director of Music Therapy, Univeristy Hospitals of Cleveland.
Music Therapy, Alzheimer’s and Post-Traumatic Stress (Alicia Clair)
Host Steve Mencher talks with Alicia Clair about Music Therapy, Alzheimer’s and Post-Traumatic Stress.
Music and Grief
Host Steve Mencher talks with Music and the Brain Series advisor Kay Redfield Jamison about her book Nothing Was The Same.
Wellness and Growth: Acoustic Medicine and Music Therapy (Dr. Jayne Standley)
Host Steve Mencher talks with Dr. Jayne Standley, Director of the Music Therapy Program, Florida State University.
Wellness and Growth: Acoustic Medicine and Music Therapy (Dr. Vera Brandes)
Host Steve Mencher talks with Dr. Vera Brandes, Director, Research Program Music Medicine, Paracelsus Medical Private University, Salzburg.
Why Do Listeners Enjoy Music that Makes Them Weep?
Host Steve Mencher and Professor David Huron, Head of Ohio State University’s Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Laboratory,answer to the question in...
The Positive Effects of Music Therapy on Health
Steve Mencher from the Library of Congress talks with Concetta M. Tomaino, Executive Director, Institute for Music and Neurologic Function, about “The...
Music, Memories, and the Brain
Dr. Peter Janata, associate professor at University of California, Davis, and member of the Center for Mind and Brain talks with Steve Mencher about h...
Making Music Changes Brains
Dr. Gottfried Schlaug, Director of the Music, Neuroimaging and Stroke Recovery Laboratories, Beth Deaconess Israel Medical Center and Harvard Medical...
Music, Trance, Religious Experience, and the Brain
Steve Mencher from the Library of Congress talks to Dr. Robin Sylvan, Director of the Sacred Center, El Cerrito, California about “Trance Formation: M...
States of Mind: Music in Islamic Sufi Rituals
Steve Mencher from the Library of Congress discusses “States of Mind: Music in Islamic Sufi Rituals” with Dr. Taoufiq ben Amor, Gordon Gray J. Lecture...
Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia
Dr. Richard E. Cytowic, MD, of George Washington Medical Center discusses his presentation “Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesth...
The Mind of the Artist
Michael Kubovy and Judith Shatin of the University of Virginia discuss their presentation “The Mind of an Artist.” Debate has long raged about whether...
“Halt or I’ll Play Vivaldi!” Classical Music as Crime Stopper
Helfgott and Middleton examine the use of classical music by law enforcement and other cultural institutions as social control, to quell and prevent c...
From Mode to Emotion in Musical Communication
From Mode to Emotion in Musical Communication: Steven Brown, Director of the NeuroArts Lab at McMaster University, discusses his work looking at the e...
Dangerous Music
Artistic anathemas, musical mayhem, and cultural conundrums such as “the devil’s music” – Middleton and Krash explore the psychological and social iss...
Your Brain on Jazz: Neural Substrates of Spontaneous Improvisation
Johns Hopkins otolaryngolost and jazz musician Charles Limb talks about “The Brain on Jazz”–Neural Substrates of Spontaneous Improvisation.”
The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature
Daniel Levitin’s new book The World in Six Songs has attracted a serious fan following, including Sting, Joni Mitchell and Willie Nelson. Neuroscienti...
The Music of Language and the Language of Music
In our everyday lives language and instrumental music are obviously different things. Neuroscientist and musician Ani Patel is the author of a recent,...