Music, neurology, and neuroscience. evolution, the musical brain, medical conditions, and therapies

Publication Data

• Title Music, neurology, and neuroscience. evolution, the musical brain, medical conditions, and therapies
• Contributors Eckart Altenmüller, Stanley Finger, François Boller
• Publisher Elsevier
• Publication date 2015
• Publication location Amsterdam
• Language English

Contents

1. Darwin and Spencer on the Origin of Music: Is Music the Food of Love?

Kim Kleinman

2. Music Evolution and Neuroscience

Charles T. Snowdon

3. Musicians and Music Making as a Model for the Study of Brain Plasticity

Gottfried Schlaug

4. Expert Music Performance: Cognitive, Neural, and Developmental Bases

Robert J. Zatorre

5. Apollo’s Curse - Neurological Causes of Motor Impairments in Musicians

Eckart Altenmüller

6. Music and Its Association with Epileptic Disorders

Melissa Maguire

7. Treatment and Prevention of Music Performance Anxiety

Claudia Spahn

8. Music as Therapy in Early History

Michael H. Thaut

9. An Enlightenment Proposal for Music Therapy: Richard Brocklesby on Music, Spirit and the Passions

Penelope Gouk

10. Neurological Implications and Neuropsychological Considerations on Folk Music and Dance

Michele Augusto Riva

11. Music and Dementia

Séverine Samson

12. Apollo’s Gift: New Aspects of Neurologic Music Therapy

Gottfried Schlaug

13. The Discovery of Human Auditory-Motor Entrainment and Its Role in the Development of Neurologic Music Therapy Michael H. Thaut

Topics

• Music :: Psychological aspects
• Music :: Physiological aspects
• Musical perception
• Neurosciences

Music, neurology, and neuroscience. evolution, the musical brain, medical conditions, and therapies. ISBN 9780444635525. Published by Elsevier in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.