Other symposium speakers include Joseph Arezzo, professor of neuroscience and neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and prominent music therapists Michael H. Sack’s books include “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,” “Awakenings,” and “An Anthropologist on Mars.” The program includes special guest speaker, Oliver Sacks, M.D., renowned author of seven books on science, medicine and the human experience, and consulting neurologist at the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function at Beth Abraham Health Services in New York. Speakers will also investigate music’s influence on physical and mental functioning, and a range of music interventions used with neurological disorders. The symposium will explore recent neuroscience and music therapy research that explores the effectiveness of music in treating neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s, stroke and dementia. in Harkness Auditorium, 333 Cedar Street. The Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology at Yale School of Medicine will present the “Neurotherapeutic Effects of Music,” on Saturday, September 9 from 9:30 a.m.
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