Music and the Brain

Library of Congress

  • 19 minutes 39 seconds
    Music as Medicine
    Host Steve Mencher talks with Dr. Deforia Lane, Director of Music Therapy, Univeristy Hospitals of Cleveland.
    23 May 2011, 3:47 pm
  • 27 minutes 58 seconds
    The Future of Music
    Host Steve Mencher talks with Tod Machover, composer and Director, Professor of Music and Media, and Director of the Opera of the Future Group at MIT.
    23 May 2011, 3:47 pm
  • 17 minutes 1 second
    Music Therapy, Alzheimer's and Post-Traumatic Stress
    Host Steve Mencher talks with Alicia Clair about Music Therapy, Alzheimer's and Post-Traumatic Stress
    15 February 2011, 6:14 pm
  • 17 minutes 1 second
    Music and Grief
    Host Steve Mencher talks with Music and the Brain Series advisor Kay Redfield Jamison about her book Nothing Was The Same.
    30 November 2010, 6:14 pm
  • 20 minutes 40 seconds
    Wellness and Growth: Acoustic Medicine and Music Therapy
    Host Steve Mencher talks with Dr. Jayne Standley, Director of the Music Therapy Program, Florida State University.
    22 September 2010, 1:35 pm
  • 17 minutes 4 seconds
    Wellness and Growth: Acoustic Medicine and Music Therapy
    Host Steve Mencher talks with Dr. Vera Brandes, Director, Research Program Music Medicine, Paracelsus Medical Private University, Salzburg.
    10 September 2010, 1:35 pm
  • Making Music Changes Brains
    Dr. Gottfried Schlaug, Director of the Music, Neuroimaging and Stroke Recovery Laboratories, Beth Deaconess Israel Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, talks with host Steve Mencher about the notable differences between the brain of a musician and a non-musician.
    29 April 2010, 3:34 pm
  • 18 minutes 10 seconds
    The Positive Effects of Music Therapy on Health
    Steve Mencher from the Library of Congress talks with Concetta M. Tomaino, Executive Director,Institute for Music and Neurologic Function, about "The Positive Effects of Music Therapy on Health."
    29 April 2010, 3:34 pm
  • 17 minutes 52 seconds
    Music, Memories, and the Brain
    Dr. Peter Janata, associate professor at University of California, Davis, and member of the Center for Mind and Brain talks with Steve Mencher about how the brain creates an autobiographical soundtrack from our memories.
    29 April 2010, 3:34 pm
  • 20 minutes 46 seconds
    Why Do Listeners Enjoy Music that Makes Them Weep?
    Host Steve Mencher and Professor David Huron, Head of Ohio State University's Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Laboratory,answer to the question in a conversation on emotions, the brain and music.
    29 April 2010, 3:34 pm
  • 25 minutes 7 seconds
    States of Mind: Music in Islamic Sufi Rituals
    Steve Mencher from the Library of Congress discusses "States of Mind: Music in Islamic Sufi Rituals" with Dr. Taoufiq ben Amor, Gordon Gray J. Lecturer, Arabic Studies, Columbia University.
    22 January 2010, 1:40 pm
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