Wired for Music
Marilyn Stanley
, Cassandra Schiemann
, Faye Lilley
, Mary Therrien
, Grace Novack
, Lynn Andrews
, Linda Leitch
, Jude Castillo
, Jacob Cebulak
, Noelle Walsh
, Melissa Oldreive
, Carol Hannam
, Pearl Saban
, Crystal Inwood
, Dana Trickett
, Rodney Cross
, Rosa Cross
, Benita Hartwell
, Deb Philippon
, Jane Graham
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Melissa Poremba
, Candace Fertile
, Sara Erskine
, Carl Scott
, Christine Lion
, Maureen Brownlee
, BJ Underwood
, Leslie Vermeer
, Kirsten Lyon
, Sharon Norman
, Sandra Storey
, Janet Meisner
, Randi Ann Doll
, Mary Danieli
, Ellen Clarke
, Robert Hykawy
, Janice Cournoyer
, Katherine Koller
, Sherry Heschuk
, Kim Fenton
, Gabrielle Veilleux
, Catherine Young
, Andrea Chan
, Lynn Bechtel
, Cindy Bodini
, Sarah Schwartz
, Beth Follett
, Kathleen Mary Kilmer
, Julie Kaniak
, Karen Nordrum
, Rhona Brinkman
, Rhona Brinkman
, Marc Bédard Pelchat
, Kim Cappellina
, Andrea Gillespie
, Audrey Joyal
, ilona storie
, Remi Gunn
, Barbara Nickerson
, Ken Gilmour
, Emma Phillips
, Megan Bishop
, Emma Côté
, Frances Peck
, Clare Hitchens
, Val Ross
, Susi Lovell
, Caitlin Matos
, Dinah Laprairie
, Dani Kat
, Marin Beck
, Frank Talaber
, Corina Barbul
, Stacey Moffat
, Vanessa Charbonneau-Dinelle
, Sandra Perry
, Reilly Robson
, Chris Carvalho
, Kate Rutter
, Patricia Johnson
, Susan Fitzgerald
, Janet Miller
, Kevin Smith
, Georgia Aliphtiras
, P. Thompson
, Hoda Montazeri
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Hilary Squires
, Christopher Rossignol
, Alice Meems
, Joshua Lewis
, Andrea Pole
, Marielle Cruz
, Colleen Coco Collins
, Shawna Moodie
editor@49thShelf.com
In this captivating blend of science and memoir, a health journalist and former cellist explores music as a source of health, resilience, connection, and joy.
Music isn't just background noise or a series of torturous exercises we remember from piano lessons. In the right doses, it can double as a mild antidepressant, painkiller, sleeping pill, memory aid— and enhance athletic performance while supporting healthy aging. Though music has been used as a healing strategy since ancient times, neuroscientists have only recently discovered how melody and rhythm stimulate core memory, motor, and emotion centers in the brain. But here's the catch: We can tune into music every day and still miss out on some of its potent effects.
Adriana Barton learned the hard way. Starting at age five, she studied the cello for nearly two decades, a pursuit that left her with physical injuries and emotional scars. In Wired for Music, she sets out to discover what music is really for, combing through medical studies, discoveries by pioneering neuroscientists, and research from biology and anthropology. Traveling from state-of-the-art science labs to a remote village in Zimbabwe, her investigation gets to the heart of music's profound effects on the human body and brain. Blending science and story, Wired for Music shows how our species' age-old connection to melody and rhythm is wired inside us.
