{"id":821199,"date":"2025-01-19T11:12:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T17:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/19\/the-neuroscientist-using-music-to-help-treat-alzheimers-and-more\/"},"modified":"2025-01-19T11:12:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T17:12:26","slug":"the-neuroscientist-using-music-to-help-treat-alzheimers-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/19\/the-neuroscientist-using-music-to-help-treat-alzheimers-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"The neuroscientist using music to help treat Alzheimer’s and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We have long suspected that music has restorative qualities, but Daniel Levitin<\/b> is now providing rigorous evidence that it can help treat many conditions, including depression, speech loss and Alzheimer’s<\/p>\n

By Linda Rodriguez-McRobbie<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n


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Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin explores how music can help heal us in his new book<\/p>\n

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Most of us already know that music can have a profound effect on mind and body. Consider the feeling of empowerment when you slip on some headphones and go for a run, the rush of nostalgia you get from hearing your favourite song from your childhood or the joy of singalongs in the car \u2013 music moves us, literally and figuratively. It can make us happy when we are sad, sad when we are happy, as well as make us dance, laugh and relax.<\/p>\n

But what if it could do more than that \u2013 what if music had the power to actually heal us? In his new book Music as Medicine: How we can harness its therapeutic power<\/em>, neuroscientist Daniel Levitin<\/a> explains why he believes it can.<\/p>\n

Read more: Why music therapy is making a comeback<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/p>\n

The idea that music is medicine isn\u2019t new \u2013 there is evidence that shamans and healers in cultures across the world have used music, especially drumming, to treat people for thousands of years.<\/p>\n

Only in recent decades, however, has science offered a rational basis for music as a mechanism for healing, demonstrating that it has a direct and measurable impact on our nervous system.<\/p>\n

Advances in neuroimaging coupled with more rigorous experimentation drawing on music theory, cognitive psychology and physiology suggest that music can be useful in aiding everything from Parkinson\u2019s disease to Alzheimer\u2019s and depression.<\/p>\n

Levitin spoke to New Scientist<\/i> about these health benefits, and how music might be added to our medical toolkit.<\/p>\n

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