Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin on Using Music as Medicine

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🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Neuroscientist and musician Daniel Levitin says we can trace beliefs about music’s power to heal mind, body and spirit back 20,000 years, to the Upper Paleolithic era. But only recently have we had good science to explain how music affects us and how we can use it therapeutically. Not only to relax, uplift and bring us together, but as part of treatment of trauma, depression, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and more. Alexis Madrigal talked onstage with Levitin in collaboration with LitQuake, San Francisco’s literary festival, running through October 26th. We listen back on their conversation and to Levitin’s live musical performance. Guest: Daniel Levitin, neuroscientist, musician and author, "I Heard There Was a Secret Chord," "The Organized Mind," "The World in Six Songs" and "This is Your Brain on Music. He is also Dean of Social Sciences at the Minerva Schools in San Francisco. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:46.8	It is litquake here in the Bay Area, the celebrated series of literary events across the region. And we participated in the litquake event here at the station. I talked with Daniel Levitton, the celebrated cognitive neuroscientist and author. His latest book is, I heard there was a secret chord. And it's all about how music can be used
1:49.0	as a therapeutic tool in medicine.
1:51.7	Not because there's some secret cure-all frequency,
1:55.0	but because music hits us on all levels.
1:57.8	And sometimes that's what we need,
2:00.0	even for serious conditions like Parkinson's.
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2:14.3	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. Today we're bringing you my on-stage interview with
2:19.9	neuroscientist Daniel Levitton about his new book, I heard there was a secret chord. It's about
2:25.4	using music as medicine, and that really means that we dug deep into how your brain perceives,
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