Daniel J. Levitin

Depressing music allows you to feel that you are understood. It allows you to live with that experience and thus overcome it.

Depressing music allows you to feel that you are understood. It allows you to live with that experience and thus overcome it.

Yeah, it's helpful to have go-to playlists. If you're a real planner, as I am, I have a playlist that I have as part of my advanced medical directive that if I'm in the hospital and I can't speak for myself and I'm just languishing there, play me these songs. And they're songs from your youth? Not all. No?

Yeah, it's helpful to have go-to playlists. If you're a real planner, as I am, I have a playlist that I have as part of my advanced medical directive that if I'm in the hospital and I can't speak for myself and I'm just languishing there, play me these songs. And they're songs from your youth? Not all. No?

Yeah, it's helpful to have go-to playlists. If you're a real planner, as I am, I have a playlist that I have as part of my advanced medical directive that if I'm in the hospital and I can't speak for myself and I'm just languishing there, play me these songs. And they're songs from your youth? Not all. No?

I'm not talking about if I have Alzheimer's, but songs that are meaningful to me and that will comfort me and help me to feel part of something larger rather than stuck in my own self. I see. Help me feel connected to the universe or to my own past and hopefully a future.

I'm not talking about if I have Alzheimer's, but songs that are meaningful to me and that will comfort me and help me to feel part of something larger rather than stuck in my own self. I see. Help me feel connected to the universe or to my own past and hopefully a future.

I'm not talking about if I have Alzheimer's, but songs that are meaningful to me and that will comfort me and help me to feel part of something larger rather than stuck in my own self. I see. Help me feel connected to the universe or to my own past and hopefully a future.

You're right. I should have an Alzheimer's playlist and a chemotherapy playlist.

You're right. I should have an Alzheimer's playlist and a chemotherapy playlist.

You're right. I should have an Alzheimer's playlist and a chemotherapy playlist.

There is something about entraining gamma waves of your brain to music. It's still early days. I would say it's not pseudoscience, but it's not yet in the evidence base. Got it.

There is something about entraining gamma waves of your brain to music. It's still early days. I would say it's not pseudoscience, but it's not yet in the evidence base. Got it.

There is something about entraining gamma waves of your brain to music. It's still early days. I would say it's not pseudoscience, but it's not yet in the evidence base. Got it.

Psyche Louie at Northeastern University, a tremendously talented researcher in this field with her collaborator, Ed Large, University of Connecticut, has a new treatment for Alzheimer's that involves gamma wave lights flashing and music that has activity in the gamma wave as a way of slowing the progression of Alzheimer's. I just saw a demo of it a few days ago, and it was very impressive.

Psyche Louie at Northeastern University, a tremendously talented researcher in this field with her collaborator, Ed Large, University of Connecticut, has a new treatment for Alzheimer's that involves gamma wave lights flashing and music that has activity in the gamma wave as a way of slowing the progression of Alzheimer's. I just saw a demo of it a few days ago, and it was very impressive.

Psyche Louie at Northeastern University, a tremendously talented researcher in this field with her collaborator, Ed Large, University of Connecticut, has a new treatment for Alzheimer's that involves gamma wave lights flashing and music that has activity in the gamma wave as a way of slowing the progression of Alzheimer's. I just saw a demo of it a few days ago, and it was very impressive.

There is no evidence that listening to music while you study will help. There have been a thousand papers on this, literally a thousand papers. Proper music, not lo-fi beats music like you would have on the radio. Heavy metal, jazz, classical, no evidence that it actually helps you study. And in fact, evidence that it creates a state of divided attention where the results are worse.

There is no evidence that listening to music while you study will help. There have been a thousand papers on this, literally a thousand papers. Proper music, not lo-fi beats music like you would have on the radio. Heavy metal, jazz, classical, no evidence that it actually helps you study. And in fact, evidence that it creates a state of divided attention where the results are worse.

There is no evidence that listening to music while you study will help. There have been a thousand papers on this, literally a thousand papers. Proper music, not lo-fi beats music like you would have on the radio. Heavy metal, jazz, classical, no evidence that it actually helps you study. And in fact, evidence that it creates a state of divided attention where the results are worse.