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Music, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Evolution, the Musical Brain, Medical Conditions, and Therapies: Volume 217

Music, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Evolution, the Musical Brain, Medical Conditions, and Therapies: Volume 217

Hardcover

Series: Progress in Brain Research, Book 217

Medical ReferenceCognition

ISBN10: 0444635513
ISBN13: 9780444635518
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: Feb 19 2015
Pages: 292
Weight: 1.59
Height: 0.69 Width: 7.50 Depth: 9.25
Language: English

Did you ever ask whether music makes people smart, why a Parkinson patient's gait is improved with marching tunes, and whether Robert Schumann was suffering from schizophrenia or Alzheimer's disease? This broad but comprehensive book deals with history and new discoveries about music and the brain. It provides a multi-disciplinary overview on music processing, its effects on brain plasticity, and the healing power of music in neurological and psychiatric disorders. In this context, the disorders the plagued famous musicians and how they affected both performance and composition are critically discussed, and music as medicine, as well as music as a potential health hazard are examined. Among the other topics covered are: how music fit into early conceptions of localization of function in the brain, the cultural roots of music in evolution, and the important roles played by music in societies and educational systems.

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