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

Stanley Finger editor Francois Boller editor Eckart Altenmüller editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Elsevier Science & Technology

Published:19th Feb '15

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

More than 40 historians of science and medicine and researchers look at music and the nervous system today--disentangling historical facts from neuroscience myths

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.

ISBN: 9780444635518

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 690g

292 pages