Jeffrey Brown:
It’s a field it’s been growing in recent decades.
The new book pulls together research and practice. And Magsamen offered us a day’s tour of ongoing examples at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she directs the International Arts and Mind Lab.
Enter the Bee Gees or, rather, Dr. Alexander Pantelyat, a neurologist and himself a violinist who’s studying the potential for improving memory loss experienced by Alzheimer’s patients and others.
Dr. Alexander Pantelyat, Co-Founder and Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Music & Medicine: And we know that music impacts multiple networks in the brain simultaneously. Simply listening to a song can activate much of the brain at once.
And so therein lies the challenge of studying these different patterns of activation and trying to separate them. Therein also lies the promise of what music can do for people with different conditions and just for healthy aging more generally.
