Los Angeles Times music critic Mark Swed made the 90-minute drive up to Santa Barbara last week to attend Tod Machover's talk onĀ "Music, Mind and Health: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Well-being through Active Sound," one of four lectures he gave recently at the university's Sage Center for the Study of the Mind. In today's issue, Swed …
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Wow, watch this trailer for "Alive Inside", a documentary currently in production about how music reaches people even at advanced stages of Alzheimer's disease. Next time you visit someone with Alzheimer's, bring an iPod loaded with beautiful music.
Here's a coolĀ article and video from Adam Boulanger's visit last week to Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School in Midland, PA. Twenty-oneĀ students from the school are being trained to teach Alzheimer's patients to use a music composition tool. They are part of Ā a collaborative research study with the M.I.T. Media Lab, the Cleveland Clinic and …
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