I heard there was a secret chord : music as medicine / Daniel J. Levitin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levitin, Daniel J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music therapy.

Music--Psychological aspects.

Music.

Music--Physiological aspects.

Neurosciences.

music (discipline).

Genre:

Instructional and educational works.

Informational works.

Physical Description:

viii, 405 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Music as medicine

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton and Company, [2024]

Summary:

"Neuroscientist and New York Times bestselling author of This Is Your Brain on Music Daniel J. Levitin reveals how the deep connections between music and the human brain can be harnessed for healing. Music is perhaps one of humanity's oldest medicines as well as its most universal: from China to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and pre-colonial South America, cultures have developed rich traditions for using sound and rhythm to ease suffering, spur healing, and calm the mind. Despite this history, musical therapy has long been considered the remit of ancient practice and alternative medicine, if not outright quackery and pseudoscience. In the last decade, however, an overwhelming body of scientific evidence has emerged that persuasively argues music can offer profoundly effective treatment for a whole host of ailments, from Alzheimer's to PTSD, depression, pain, and cognitive injury. It is, in short, one of the most potent and remarkably promising new therapies available today. A work of dazzling ideas, cutting-edge research, and joyful celebration of the human mind, I Heard There Was a Secret Chord explores the critical role music has played in human evolution, illuminating how the story of the human brain is inseparable from the creative enterprise of music that has bound cultures together throughout history. Music insinuates itself into our earliest memories; it is intimately connected to our emotional regulation and cognition; its shared rhythms and sounds are essential to our social behaviors. As neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin demonstrates in this mind-expanding follow-up to This Is Your Brain on Music--which revolutionized our understanding of the neuroscience of song--medical researchers are now finding that these same deep connections can be harnessed to create profound benefits for those both young and old"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A musical species

If I only had a brain : the neuroanatomy of music

Oh, the shark bites : musical memory

Look at me now : attention

Daydream believer : the brain's "default mode," introspection, and meditation

Interlude

Music, movement, and movement disorders

Parkinson's disease

Trauma

Mental health

Memory loss, dementia, Alzheimer's disease, and stroke

Pain

Neurodevelopmental disorders

Learning how to fly

Music in everyday life

Fate knocking on your door : précis to a theory of musical meaning

Music medicine, mystery, and possibility.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-383) and index.

ISBN:

9781324036180

1324036184

OCLC:

1418888462

Publisher Number:

90100166113