Articles and YouTube Videos
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Music therapy for mental disorder and mental health: the untapped potential of Indian classical music
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Music is a universal human trait. The healing
power of music has been acknowledged in
almost all traditions of music. Music therapy
is moving from a social-science model
focusing on overall health and well-being
towards a neuroscience mo...
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Video – Sound For Loving Relationships with David Gibson
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https://bbsradio.com/system/files/archive_uploaded_video/Sound_Healing_2022-03-05.mp4
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Do concussions leave a lasting imprint on the hearing brain?
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Article discusses the frequency-following response (FFR) a new, objective approach to identify concussions (Hearing Journal. 2017;70[3]:56) and, potentially, brain damage from repeated subconcussive injuries, such as those endured by football players. The FFR is a measure of sound-evoked synchron...
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An auditory perspective on concussion
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Concussions are a public health crisis. Millions of athletes and thousands of service members a year, for instance, suffer concussive injuries. While more widely known to lead to possible major brain-related problems, such as CTE, concussions also damage the auditory brain, hence the auditory sys...
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This Is Your Brain, This Is Your Brain On Music
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NPR, All Things Considered, Sept 2014
Musical training doesn't just improve your ear for music — it also helps your ear for speech. That's the takeaway from an unusual new study published in The Journal of Neuroscience. Researchers found that kids who took music lessons for two years didn't ju...
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Video: Project gives young brains the benefits of musical training
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PBS News Hour, August 9, 2014
Learning a musical instrument boosts language, reading skills.
The percentage of students receiving music education has been in decline for decades. The Harmony Project, a music program for inner city kids in Los Angeles partners with a neurobiologist to study th...
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Video: Nina Kraus – Breaking the Wall to Neuroeducation @Falling Walls Conference 2015
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Dec 7, 2015 Nina Kraus explains how the neuroscience of sound, language and music shapes human communication at the Falling Walls Conference in Berlin, November 9, 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYw17xCTPTI
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How Music Education Benefits the Brain
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The similarities between music and language development are strong. However, there have been many unanswered questions:
Does music education improve language acquisition, reading ability and/or overall academic ability?
What about the nature-nurture debate? Are some musical children bette...
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Video: Nina Kraus “Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World”
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Streamed live on Oct 24, 2021 Hearing a cry or a word or a bird call or a chord brings forth different, specific reactions in each of our brains. How we engage with those sounds, tuning them up or down, and in or out, is a lifelong process that changes the brain along the way. The brain and sound...
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Video: Music is the Jackpot: Nina Kraus “Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World”
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Jan 5, 2022 This video contains excerpts from an ARTSpeaks event held on November 8, 2021. Nina Kraus, Professor of Neurobiology, Otolaryngology; Hugh Knowles Chair; Fellow, Hugh Knowles Center at Northwestern University, is a scientist, inventor, and amateur musician who studies the biology of a...
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Listening in the din: A factor in learning disabilities?
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Early childhood is about listening. However, our acoustic environments often compromise sound-to-meaning mapping: children are bombarded by a relentless din. While noise presents a challenge for all of us, children face special difficulty because their language skills are under development, and ...
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Low socioeconomic status linked to impaired auditory processing
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Children raised in homes with lower-income and less-educated parents are at an auditory disadvantage compared with children who come from more privileged circumstances, affecting the development of literacy skills.
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