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.
Concetta Tomaino explains how music therapy can have exciting results for patients with neurological conditions because of the enriched sensory stimulus that it allows.
David Rothernberg takes discussion of bird songs a step further than biological imperative, and recognizes these tunes distinct to each species as music.
Stephen Mithen questions the elitism that has been associated with music in the west, instead observing that music is something that pervades everything we do.
Scientist Ofer Tchernichovski takes a look at how birds are hard wired for songs and how this innate instinct in birds can be applied to music and song development.
Brian Greene explains how the harmonies and relationships you hear between notes can all be broken down mathematically.
Brian Greene explains the basic equations that govern all sound, those of simple harmonic motion.
Scientist Brian Green explains how all music and sound comes from minuscule vibrations and how our brain decodes these vibrations to perceive sound.
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.
Oliver Sacks takes a look at how finger movements and Suzuki training can affect the brain, especially at an early age.
Scientist Oliver Sacks takes a look at musicians brains and how brain imaging can reveal distinct differences in certain regions.
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