Music can be medicine. It can help treat diseases like Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and depression says neuroscientist Daniel Levitin.
He’s not just a brain scientist, he’s a record producer working with artists like Sting and Stevie Wonder. He knows how music can fuse into our earliest memories, affect our mood and connect us with other people.
Professor Levitin brings together the results of hundreds of studies on music and the brain to show how music can reach patients in ways other treatments can’t.
His new book is called Music as Medicine: How We Can Harness Its Therapeutic Power.
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