Episode 6: Music X Dementia

How does music increase memory development for dementia patients? From helping patients associate positive memories with music to improve language functioning, music-mediated intervention has proved to facilitate improvements in patients' experiences with dementia. Learn more by hearing from Chair of the Career Center at the Curtis Institute of Music, Mary Javian, members of the Penn Memory Center and Dr.Cassandra Germain, who has researched music's impact on dementia through her work with the Duke School of Medicine and Duke Bass Connection in her study, "Music and Memory in the again Brain." See more information below on the Penn Memory Center and the study conducted by Dr.Germain.

Link to Episode: https://soundcloud.com/damian-ferraro1/resonance-episode-6-music-x-dementia?si=5deb163bb2404950b5cb7d49f7e642ba&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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From the documentary "Alive Inside" https://bassconnections.duke.edu/about/news/personalized-music-therapy-benefits-people-dementia%E2%80%94and-their-caregivers

https://www.sp2.upenn.edu/msw-students-engage-with-penn-memory-center-patients-through-music/