Music as Medicine

Inquiring Minds

Female Host, Critical Thinking, Society & Culture, Neuroscience, Interview, Science, Social Sciences

4.4 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Concetta Tomaino is a pioneer in the field of music therapy and the executive director and co-founder of the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function. On the show this week we talk to Dr. Tomaino about her work treating individuals suffering the effects of brain trauma or neurological diseases as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

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0:00.0	It's Monday, December 3rd, 2018, and you're listening to Inquiring Minds.
0:06.3	I'm Indraviscontis.
0:07.6	Each week, we bring you a new, in-depth exploration of the space where science, politics, and society collide.
0:13.2	We endeavor to find out what's true, what's left to discover, and why it all matters.
0:17.6	You can find us online at Enquiring.show, on Twitter, at Inquiring Show, and on Facebook.
0:22.9	And you can also get an ad-free version of this show by supporting us at patreon.com
0:27.1	slash inquiring minds. And you can subscribe to the show on iTunes or any other podcasting
0:32.6	app.
0:44.2	It's December, and everyone's probably really busy with all of their holiday engagements.
0:52.5	Here at Inquiring Minds, Adam Isaac and I have also been busy preparing the next season of our other podcast, Cadence, what music tells us about the mind.
0:55.7	We hope to launch season three about how music influences us sometime in the next few weeks. And as we've been gathering the interviews,
1:00.9	I was reminded of an interview that we did last year that we couldn't actually air in its
1:05.2	full on the podcast because of its length. And that made me really sad. So I wanted to give our listeners here on
1:11.5	inquiring minds a chance to hear the voice of the wonderful Conchetta Tamino. She's a music
1:16.7	therapist, and we both shared a friend in Dr. Oliver Sacks. Conchetta is a pioneer in the field of
1:23.1	music therapy, especially focusing in on individuals who suffered from the effects of stroke or other
1:28.8	brain trauma or who have degenerative neurological diseases like Parkinson's or Alzheimer's.
1:34.3	She's the executive director and co-founder of the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function.
1:39.8	And she's the senior vice president for music therapy at Center Light Health System.
1:50.0	Centerlight used to be called Beth Abraham Family of Health Services, and that's where she met Dr. Oliver Sacks.
2:02.0	What do a South African female DJ, a Wall Street businessman turned mixologist, and one of the fastest men alive all have in common.
2:06.8	They all dared to push themselves and chase their dreams and make them into their own victories.
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