Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Important post on music and brain development

In this important press release from the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Nina Kraus, a communications disorder professor at Northwestern University, and Gottfried Schlaug, an associate professor of neurology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, summarized recent research outlining the profound ability of music to enhance or restore brain pathways and the implications of those findings for health and education.

http://danapress.typepad.com/weblog/2010/02/aaas-brainchanging-power-of-music-prompts-calls-for-more-education-therapy.html