Music, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Historical Connections and - Perspective

. Music, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Historical Connections and Perspectives provides a broad and comprehensive discussion of history and new discoveries regarding music and the brain, presenting a multidisciplinary overview on music processing, its effects on brain plasticity, and the healing power of music in neurological and psychiatric disorders. . In this context, the disorders that plagued famous musicians and how they affected both performance and composition are critically discussed, as is music as medicine and its potential health hazard. . Additional topics, including the way music fits into early conceptions of localization of function in the brain, its cultural roots in evolution, and its important roles in societies and educational systems are also explored.

Product details

• Assisted by: Eckart Altenmuller (Editor), Francois Boller (Editor), Stanley Finger (Editor), Eckart Altenmüller (Editor of the series), Francois Boller (Editor of the series), Finger Stanley (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.02.2015
• EAN: 9780444633996
• ISBN: 978-0-444-63399-6
• No. of pages: 440
• Dimensions: 198 mm x 240 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Progress in Brain Research; Progress in Brain Research
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Neurology, Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology