Music, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Evolution, the Musical Brain, Medical Conditions, and Therapies, Volume 217 (Hardcover)

Did you ever ask whether music makes people smart, why a Parkinson patient's gait is improved with marching tunes, and whether Robert Schumann was suffering from schizophrenia or Alzheimer's disease? This broad but comprehensive book deals with history and new discoveries about music and the brain. It provides a multi-disciplinary 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 the plagued famous musicians and how they affected both performance and composition are critically discussed, and music as medicine, as well as music as a potential health hazard are examined. Among the other topics covered are: how music fit into early conceptions of localization of function in the brain, the cultural roots of music in evolution, and the important roles played by music in societies and educational systems.

General

Imprint:	Elsevier Science Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Progress in Brain Research
Release date:	February 2015
First published:	2015
Series editors:	Eckart Altenmuller • Stanley Finger • Fran cois Boller
Dimensions:	243 x 195 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	292
ISBN-13:	978-0-444-63551-8
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Neurology & clinical neurophysiology Promotions
LSN:	0-444-63551-3
Barcode:	9780444635518

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