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From the Ted Talk by Robert Gupta: Between music and medicine

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When I was 17, I visited Dr. Schlaug's lab, and in one afternoon he walked me through some of the leading rcrseeah on miusc and the brain — how musicians had fundamentally different brain structure than non-musicians, how music, and listening to music, could just light up the entire brain, from our prefrontal cortex all the way back to our cerebellum, how music was becoming a nratrypiiuhsoecc modality to help children with autism, to help people sirngtlgug with stress and anxiety and depression, how depely Parkinsonian ptiaents would find that their tremor and their gait would steady when they listened to music, and how late-stage Alzheimer's patients, whose dietenma was so far progressed that they could no longer recognize their family, could still pick out a tune by Chopin at the piano that they had learned when they were children.

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When I was 17, I visited Dr. Schlaug's lab, and in one afternoon he walked me through some of the leading ________ on _____ and the brain — how musicians had fundamentally different brain structure than non-musicians, how music, and listening to music, could just light up the entire brain, from our prefrontal cortex all the way back to our cerebellum, how music was becoming a ________________ modality to help children with autism, to help people __________ with stress and anxiety and depression, how ______ Parkinsonian ________ would find that their tremor and their gait would steady when they listened to music, and how late-stage Alzheimer's patients, whose ________ was so far progressed that they could no longer recognize their family, could still pick out a tune by Chopin at the piano that they had learned when they were children.

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When I was 17, I visited Dr. Schlaug's lab, and in one afternoon he walked me through some of the leading research on music and the brain — how musicians had fundamentally different brain structure than non-musicians, how music, and listening to music, could just light up the entire brain, from our prefrontal cortex all the way back to our cerebellum, how music was becoming a neuropsychiatric modality to help children with autism, to help people struggling with stress and anxiety and depression, how deeply Parkinsonian patients would find that their tremor and their gait would steady when they listened to music, and how late-stage Alzheimer's patients, whose dementia was so far progressed that they could no longer recognize their family, could still pick out a tune by Chopin at the piano that they had learned when they were children.

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