How Does Music Stimulate the Brain?

Every sound that we process is managed by a different area of the brain. Music is the only stimulant that we know of that actually activates all these different areas at the same time. And they have to be activated and talked to each other to make sense of what they're hearing. So, as you can imagine, it's powerful for all of us, but it's particularly powerful for somebody where parts of the braina working less optimately than others.