Larry Sherman

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178 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 3 Aug

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Something You Should Know · How Slowing Down Makes Life Better & Why Every Brain Needs Music · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

The reality is if we're pushing ourselves to do something really different, it looks like we can actually generate new nerve cells, new neurons, and they will integrate into circuits that exist already or form new circuits that will allow you to do something like play a violin, but that also helps you to do other things.

It's a remarkable process.

Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of music therapy out there, and it's highly valuable.

I can think of patients who are suffering from certain forms of dementia who may be less verbal or even nonverbal.

If you bring them into a studio and get them to either play an instrument or sing, they will sing.

And it's remarkable.

There's examples of people who are sort of not speaking.

You'll play some music, get them to sing along.

They'll start singing.

And then for some period of time after they're done singing, they'll actually speak.

And so I think there's really great examples that music as a therapy is highly valuable.

There's this example of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords who had brain damage after being shot.

And music therapy was a big part of getting her to the point where she could speak again.

And so that's a traumatic brain injury that was recovered through music therapy.

So I think there's a lot of value to this.

And it's probably more valuable than we think under different circumstances.

There's growing evidence, for example, that people who have certain types of anxiety can benefit from music therapy as well because it can have a very calming or organizing effect in our brain that allows us to kind of get past those anxieties.

So there's a lot of value to that.

Absolutely, and that's another point.

I mean, music covers so much territory in our brains, even bigger territory than language.

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