NIH/Kennedy Center Workshop on Music and the Brain: Finding Harmony

Thomas Cheever; Anna Taylor; Robert Finkelstein; Emmeline Edwards; Laura Thomas; Joke Bradt; Steven J Holochwost; Julene K Johnson; Charles Limb; Aniruddh D Patel; Nim Tottenham; Sunil Iyengar; Deborah Rutter; Renée Fleming; Francis S Collins

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2018.02.004

NIH/Kennedy Center Workshop on Music and the Brain: Finding Harmony

Neuron. 2018 Mar 21;97(6):1214-1218. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2018.02.004.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
² National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. Electronic address: finkelsr@ninds.nih.gov.
³ National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. Electronic address: emmeline.edwards@nih.gov.
⁴ Department of Creative Arts Therapies, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁵ Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁶ Institute for Health & Aging, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁷ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁸ Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA; Azrieli Program in Brain, Mind, & Consciousness, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Toronto, Canada.
⁹ Department of Psychology, Columbia University, NY, USA.
¹⁰ National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC, USA.
¹¹ John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC, USA.

Abstract

The National Institutes of Health and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts convened a panel of experts to discuss the current state of research on music and the brain. The panel generated research recommendations to accelerate the study of music's effects on the brain and the implications for human health.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Adult
Age Factors
Brain / growth & development*
Child
District of Columbia
Education / methods*
Education / trends
Humans
Music / psychology*
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)* / trends
Translational Research, Biomedical / methods*
Translational Research, Biomedical / trends
United States