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Medical Mysteries of Music 

If you have a friend who just can’t dance, it might be a neurological problem

November 7, 2022November 7, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Beat Deafness, Body, Brain, Dancing, Music

[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Back during elementary school assemblies for the morning rendition of O Canada,

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Ongoing History of New Music 

The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 955: Amazing facts about music, the brain, and the body

September 9, 2022September 9, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Biology, Body, Brain, Evolutionary Biology, Music, Neurology

The most powerful and strangest lump of organic material in the known universe sits inside your skull. The human brain

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Medical Mysteries of Music 

Scientists have narrowed down where music lives in the brain even more

March 7, 2022March 8, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Brain, MIT, Neuroscience, Singing

Scientists have known for a while that music has its own special repository in our brains. Musical memories are stored

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Medical Mysteries of Music 

This piece of music could be the “anti-epilepsy” genre scientists have been looking for.

September 17, 2021September 17, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Brain, Epilepsy, Mozart, Neuroscience, Sonata for Two Pianos

The brain is a mysterious gooey thing. Taken out of the skull and laid on a table, the thing just

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Medical Mysteries of Music 

Random music news for Tuesday, August 24, 2021

August 24, 2021August 24, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Blackberry, Brain, Britney Spears, Concerts, Eagles, Johnny Lydon, Laura Jane Grace, Monkees, QNX, Sex Pistols, Siri, SiriusXM, Slip-Stream, Tetris, TikTok, UB40, YouTube

Gimme. NOW. As for music news for August 24, 2021… A UK study confirms that it’s possible to hold full-capacity

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Medical Mysteries of Music 

Music syncs the brains of audiences with the performers

June 3, 2020June 3, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Brain, Mirror Neurons, Neurology

We all know the feeling that comes over us during a great gig when the audience and the performer(s) seem

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Medical Mysteries of Music 

There’s new information on how the brain processes music

February 29, 2020February 28, 2020 Alan Cross 1 Comment Brain, Music, Neuroscience

For reasons that are still very unclear from an evolutionary and neurological point of view, the human brain is hardwired

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Medical Mysteries of Music 

Does listening to music give you chills? Then you may have a special brain.

February 6, 2020February 7, 2020 Alan Cross 2 Comments Brain, Music, Neuroscience

I believe that The Who’s “Won’t Get Fooled Again” is the greatest rock song ever conceived. When Roger hits that

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Medical Mysteries of Music 

Your brain can identify a song in 100 milliseconds

October 31, 2019October 31, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments Brain

That lump of squish our skulls is a pretty amazing thing. Not only can store about 200 exabytes of memory

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Medical Mysteries of Music 

Here’s what science says happens to our brains when we listen to music

June 6, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Brain, Music, Neuroscience

Although there doesn’t seem to be an evolutionary reason for us to have music, it seems as if our brains

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Medical Mysteries of Music 

Five fascinating medical mysteries of music

February 26, 2018February 25, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Brain, earworms, Neurology

[This is my weekly music column for Global News. -AC] As far as evolutionary biologists can determine, there was no

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