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Music Mends Minds, Part 2

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Carol Rosenstein, the founder of Music Mends Minds, joins Suzanne to talk more about how music transforms those suffering from Parkinson’s disease, dementia, or Alzheimer’s. Carol wants to bring our attention to two important takeaways.

First, there are cells in our brains that have to do with music memory storage. Those cells are generated when a fetus in utero is six months old. They’re already hearing a lullaby of “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” being played in mommy’s bedroom. Research shows that those lullabies are recognized after they’re born.

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The second thing is that we have a personal pharmacy within our own brains. Music is a catalyst that can release a neurotransmitter chemical. A Parkinson patient, they have dopamine deficiency. Music triggers a release of dopamine so that a Parkinsonian walks better, thinks better, talks better, feels better. Somebody sitting clapping to a melody, or tapping to a melody, doesn’t have exactly the same trigger in the brain as somebody playing piano. There’s music, there’s notes, there’s pedals, there’s harmonics, and so the intensity of the music making has the most important effect on how much of that chemical is going to be released into the system.

Carol says, “We don’t only administer to the patients. How about the caregiver? Ehree seconds, somebody’s being diagnosed with dementia, every 65 seconds somebody with Alzheimer’s, every five minutes somebody with Parkinson’s. We’re on a pandemic parallel pathway that COVID took us on, and we can show that music helps to stabilize us all.”

For more information, email Carol at info@musicmendsminds.org/, call her at (818) 326-0500, and you can donate to keep them growing at https://www.musicmendsminds.org/.

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