It's Monday, January 1st, 2018, and you're listening to Inquiring Minds. I'm Indrae Viscontas.

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This week, Kishore Adam and I are actually taking a bit of a break. And we have lots of new

exciting changes to

bring to you in 2018. But we didn't want to leave you hanging. So here's the first episode of

season two of my other podcast, Cadence, what music tells us about the mind. Earlier in 2017,

we had author Jennifer Latson on Inquiring Minds talking about her book, The Boy Who Loved Too Much, discussing William's Syndrome, a genetic condition in which kids are born with heart problems, but also with what seems to be called pathological friendliness.

On this episode of Cadence, we explore how these individuals actually have a special affinity for music

and what that might mean for the rest of us and our relationship with this human obsession.

So here it is the first episode of the second season of Cadence.

Welcome. Well, when Benjamin was six weeks old, he went into heart failure.

And I didn't know it at the time.

I thought he had a cold.

I took him to the pediatrician.

And for the first time that day, she heard a heart murmur and said, you know, I think we probably should get this checked out. And I said, okay, should I make an appointment? And she said, no, I think

maybe you should drive straight to the hospital. And that was our first inkling that there might be a

problem. And when the doctors did some testing and found out that Benjamin had aortic stenosis

and that that particular cardiovascular problem is almost exclusive to William's syndrome.

So at the time, since he was only a six-pound baby and they really couldn't tell his by visual

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