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. 2021 Jan 26;118(4):e2025750118.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.2025750118.

Science and Culture: At the nexus of music and medicine, some see treatments for disease

Amy McDermott

Science and Culture: At the nexus of music and medicine, some see treatments for disease

Amy McDermott. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Neurologists, cognitive neuroscientists, and clinicians are coming together to study the therapeutic potential of music. Image credit: Shutterstock/agsandrew.
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As part of an NIH-funded experiment, soprano Renée Fleming underwent a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scan of her brain in 2017. The scan highlights areas of increased signal (commonly interpreted as increased brain activity) when Fleming imagined singing while inside the fMRI scanner. Learning more about music’s interactions with the brain could lead to new and better medical therapies. Image credit: National Institutes of Health/David Jangraw.
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