Anybody who's ever leaned on a favorite song after a breakup understands how much better that can make us feel.

We hear those sounds through our ears, process them in our brains, and sometimes if the volume is up high enough and the mood is right, we can feel them throughout our bodies.

Oh, sweet disposition and my wide-eyed gaze.

We're singing in the car

Getting lost up state

Autumn leaves falling down like pieces in a place

And I can picture it after all these days

So is there any chance that the healing properties of melody go beyond their emotional effects?

Can music actually make us physically healthier?

Oh, because there we are again on that little town street.

You almost ran the red because you were looking over at me.

Wind in my hair I was there.

I remember it all to bright.

From KERA in Dallas, this is Think. I'm Chris Boyd.

Way back in the 5th century BCE, the physician Hippocrates believed that music's health benefits

go beyond the pleasure we feel in listening. In our own century, scientists have the tools

and the knowledge to test those ideas, and the

results so far have been fascinating.

Daniel Leviton is a neuroscientist, musician, dean emeritus at Minerva University, Professor

Emeritus at McGill University, and visiting professor at UCLA.

His new book is called, I Heard There Was a Secret Chord, Music as Medicine. Dan, welcome

back to think. Thank you for having me back again. So when Hippocrates was thinking about the

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