In the first part of this interview with Daniel Levitin, learn about musical memory and the nuerochemicals associated with this form of cognition.
Interview with Daniel Levitin: Part One
Music and the Brain: Are Humans Wired for Music?
Oliver Sacks discusses how the human brain is wired for language and how this may apply to the human capacity for music.
Music and Medicine: Music Therapy for Neurological Conditions
Concetta Tomaino explains how music therapy can have exciting results for patients with neurological conditions because of the enriched sensory stimulus that it allows.
Music and the Brain: Parkinsonsism and Music’s Ability to Heal
Oliver Sacks explains his first experience as a physician where he saw music transform Parkinson's patients into state where they could move and converse again.
Music and the Brain: The Importance of Early Musical Training
Oliver Sacks takes a look at how finger movements and Suzuki training can affect the brain, especially at an early age.
Music and the Brain: How Music Can Change the Brain
Scientist Oliver Sacks takes a look at musicians brains and how brain imaging can reveal distinct differences in certain regions.
Music and the Brain: Scientist Oliver Sacks on Musical Cognition
Oliver Sacks explains the how multiple regions of the brain interact to form the ways that humans interact with and create music.
Cognition: How Music Can Reach the Silenced Brain
Music therapist Concetta M. Tomaino says music seems to able to reach us when movement, memory, speech, and emotion have to all appearances been destroyed by injury or disease.
Interview with Daniel Levitin: Part Two
In part two of the interview with Daniel Levitin, learn about his take on the purpose of music and different arguments for the evolutionary origin of music.
Interview with Daniel Levitin: Part Three
In part three of Daniel Levitin's interview, learn about the medical implications of the research investigating the relationships between cognition and music.






