Heather Berlin

And if they could get him to start playing the music, he could play an entire beautiful piece through all the way to the end.

Because it was a different part of his brain.

And once you activated that part of the brain or with Alzheimer's patients, if you get them to start, if they can't even speak at a certain point, you get them to start singing a song from their era of their childhood or happy birthday, they can suddenly sing the whole thing to completion.

Music is really powerful and it's related to language as well.

And it's how we remember things, right?

With rhythm and dance.

And so it goes very deep to our evolutionary roots as well.

Yes.

Yeah.

And before we could write things down, you know, the way we remember things with song.

Right.

Song and rhyme and rhythm.

And so-

I think it's deep in sort of our subcortical parts of our brain.

And like I said, the prefrontal cortex is important for certain things.

And some people who are too under control, they need more control.

They need more prefrontal cortex function.

And others need less to actually do their best.

Oh, absolutely.

I mean, if you're too much of a risk taker without the training, that's dangerous.