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Music and the Brain Podcast

The Library's Music and the Brain events offer lectures, conversations and symposia about the explosion of new research at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience and music. Project chair Kay Redfield Jamison convenes scientists and scholars, composers, performers, theorists, physicians, psychologists, and other experts at the Library for a compelling 2-year series, with generous support from the Dana Foundation.

  1. 23/05/2011

    Music as Medicine

    Host Steve Mencher talks with Dr. Deforia Lane, Director of Music Therapy, Univeristy Hospitals of Cleveland.

    20 min

  2. 23/05/2011

    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.

    28 min

  3. 15/02/2011

    Music Therapy, Alzheimer's and Post-Traumatic Stress

    Host Steve Mencher talks with Alicia Clair about Music Therapy, Alzheimer's and Post-Traumatic Stress

    17 min

  4. 30/11/2010

    Music and Grief

    Host Steve Mencher talks with Music and the Brain Series advisor Kay Redfield Jamison about her book Nothing Was The Same.

    17 min

  5. 22/09/2010

    Wellness and Growth: Acoustic Medicine and Music Therapy

    Host Steve Mencher talks with Dr. Jayne Standley, Director of the Music Therapy Program, Florida State University.

    21 min

  6. 10/09/2010

    Wellness and Growth: Acoustic Medicine and Music Therapy

    Host Steve Mencher talks with Dr. Vera Brandes, Director, Research Program Music Medicine, Paracelsus Medical Private University, Salzburg.

    17 min

  7. 29/04/2010

    Making Music Changes Brains

    Dr. Gottfried Schlaug, Director of the Music, Neuroimaging and Stroke Recovery Laboratories, Beth Deaconess Israel Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, talks with host Steve Mencher about the notable differences between the brain of a musician and a non-musician.

  8. 29/04/2010

    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 how the brain creates an autobiographical soundtrack from our memories.

    18 min
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The Library's Music and the Brain events offer lectures, conversations and symposia about the explosion of new research at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience and music. Project chair Kay Redfield Jamison convenes scientists and scholars, composers, performers, theorists, physicians, psychologists, and other experts at the Library for a compelling 2-year series, with generous support from the Dana Foundation.

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