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Daniel J. Levitin

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The Jordan Harbinger Show
1147: Daniel J. Levitin | The Science Behind Music as Medicine

The wires in your home have rubber around them or some rubberized plastic or insulating material. Wires, as it were, in your brain have myelin, which is a fatty white substance. And that's why we call it white matter. It's after the white insulating sheath. When that sheath becomes degraded due to the disease, it causes a lot of things. Memory trouble.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1147: Daniel J. Levitin | The Science Behind Music as Medicine

The wires in your home have rubber around them or some rubberized plastic or insulating material. Wires, as it were, in your brain have myelin, which is a fatty white substance. And that's why we call it white matter. It's after the white insulating sheath. When that sheath becomes degraded due to the disease, it causes a lot of things. Memory trouble.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1147: Daniel J. Levitin | The Science Behind Music as Medicine

The wires in your home have rubber around them or some rubberized plastic or insulating material. Wires, as it were, in your brain have myelin, which is a fatty white substance. And that's why we call it white matter. It's after the white insulating sheath. When that sheath becomes degraded due to the disease, it causes a lot of things. Memory trouble.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1147: Daniel J. Levitin | The Science Behind Music as Medicine

Your neurons are not speaking to each other properly. Memory trouble, movement disorders, fatigue, and music plays a role there in all of them, but for different reasons. Music motivates you through the dopaminergic system to help you get over the fatigue. It can help with memory problems to the extent that music can serve as a cue for some memory.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1147: Daniel J. Levitin | The Science Behind Music as Medicine

Your neurons are not speaking to each other properly. Memory trouble, movement disorders, fatigue, and music plays a role there in all of them, but for different reasons. Music motivates you through the dopaminergic system to help you get over the fatigue. It can help with memory problems to the extent that music can serve as a cue for some memory.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1147: Daniel J. Levitin | The Science Behind Music as Medicine

Your neurons are not speaking to each other properly. Memory trouble, movement disorders, fatigue, and music plays a role there in all of them, but for different reasons. Music motivates you through the dopaminergic system to help you get over the fatigue. It can help with memory problems to the extent that music can serve as a cue for some memory.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1147: Daniel J. Levitin | The Science Behind Music as Medicine

And in the way of Parkinson's, it can help people with MS to walk and move more continuously and speak better.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1147: Daniel J. Levitin | The Science Behind Music as Medicine

And in the way of Parkinson's, it can help people with MS to walk and move more continuously and speak better.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1147: Daniel J. Levitin | The Science Behind Music as Medicine

And in the way of Parkinson's, it can help people with MS to walk and move more continuously and speak better.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1147: Daniel J. Levitin | The Science Behind Music as Medicine

Because it was transmitted by saliva.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1147: Daniel J. Levitin | The Science Behind Music as Medicine

Because it was transmitted by saliva.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1147: Daniel J. Levitin | The Science Behind Music as Medicine

Because it was transmitted by saliva.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1147: Daniel J. Levitin | The Science Behind Music as Medicine

I'm not an epidemiologist, caveat, and I'm not a physician. I'm just a simple country neuroscientist. But what I do know about Epstein-Barr is that if you were to test the entire population, something like 90% of us would have Epstein-Barr antibodies. I see. Even still now, you would have them. The question is whether you become symptomatic.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1147: Daniel J. Levitin | The Science Behind Music as Medicine

I'm not an epidemiologist, caveat, and I'm not a physician. I'm just a simple country neuroscientist. But what I do know about Epstein-Barr is that if you were to test the entire population, something like 90% of us would have Epstein-Barr antibodies. I see. Even still now, you would have them. The question is whether you become symptomatic.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1147: Daniel J. Levitin | The Science Behind Music as Medicine

I'm not an epidemiologist, caveat, and I'm not a physician. I'm just a simple country neuroscientist. But what I do know about Epstein-Barr is that if you were to test the entire population, something like 90% of us would have Epstein-Barr antibodies. I see. Even still now, you would have them. The question is whether you become symptomatic.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1147: Daniel J. Levitin | The Science Behind Music as Medicine

So mononucleosis, Epstein-Barr, as far as I know, same virus. Mononucleosis is a manifestation of the virus. Some people have a recurrence of it later in life, that mono can come back 10 or 15, 20 years later. Sometimes it's diagnosed as chronic fatigue syndrome. Sometimes it can become narcolepsy, if there are other factors. But most of us are able to live with it and keep it in check.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1147: Daniel J. Levitin | The Science Behind Music as Medicine

So mononucleosis, Epstein-Barr, as far as I know, same virus. Mononucleosis is a manifestation of the virus. Some people have a recurrence of it later in life, that mono can come back 10 or 15, 20 years later. Sometimes it's diagnosed as chronic fatigue syndrome. Sometimes it can become narcolepsy, if there are other factors. But most of us are able to live with it and keep it in check.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1147: Daniel J. Levitin | The Science Behind Music as Medicine

So mononucleosis, Epstein-Barr, as far as I know, same virus. Mononucleosis is a manifestation of the virus. Some people have a recurrence of it later in life, that mono can come back 10 or 15, 20 years later. Sometimes it's diagnosed as chronic fatigue syndrome. Sometimes it can become narcolepsy, if there are other factors. But most of us are able to live with it and keep it in check.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1147: Daniel J. Levitin | The Science Behind Music as Medicine

Some of us can't. We don't really understand the body's ability to fight these invaders very well. I see. Which is why long COVID is still a thing. We haven't figured that out. Some people get it. Some don't. Seems not to be particularly related to which strain of COVID you got or how severe your case was. So Captain Kirk used to say space, the final frontier. Yeah.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1147: Daniel J. Levitin | The Science Behind Music as Medicine

Some of us can't. We don't really understand the body's ability to fight these invaders very well. I see. Which is why long COVID is still a thing. We haven't figured that out. Some people get it. Some don't. Seems not to be particularly related to which strain of COVID you got or how severe your case was. So Captain Kirk used to say space, the final frontier. Yeah.