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Music and memory have a deep, intertwined relationship. Journey with us on the exploration of how music occupies the brain and it's effect on the human condition.
According to the powerful and creative author Oliver Sacks, in his book Musicophia, he investigates the power of music to move us, to heal us, and to haunt us. Sacks reports that "music engages multiple brain regions, including those for emotion, reward, and sensory processing, creating strong, vivid and rich memory traces."
Music therapy is found to be effective for patients with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease or advanced dementia. Music therapy is effective because musical perception, musical emotion, and musical memory can survive long after of other forms of memory haves disappeared.
Doctors at UCLA Health have found in their observational studies that listening to music may have a protective effect on cognition. They found that people listening to music almost every day lowered their risk of dementia by 40%. The protective effect also extended to protect general decline.
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