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Music, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Historical Connections and Perspectives

  • 1st Edition, Volume 216 - February 11, 2015
  • Editors: Eckart Altenmüller, Stanley Finger, Francois Boller
  • Language: English
  • Hardback ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 6 3 3 9 9 - 6
  • eBook ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 6 3 4 1 0 - 8

Music, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Historical Connections and Perspectives provides a broad and comprehensive discussion of history and new discoveries regarding music and the b… Read more

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Music, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Historical Connections and Perspectives

provides a broad and comprehensive discussion of history and new discoveries regarding music and the brain, presenting a multidisciplinary 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 that plagued famous musicians and how they affected both performance and composition are critically discussed, as is music as medicine and its potential health hazard.

Additional topics, including the way music fits into early conceptions of localization of function in the brain, its cultural roots in evolution, and its important roles in societies and educational systems are also explored.