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Art and the brain, with Susan Magsamen

Instant Genius

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The Neuroplasticity of Music in Alzheimer's Patients

When Alzheimer's patients are singing, they're actually not activating the memory part of your brain. They're actually activating other parts of the cortex where think of it as multiple systems. Our brains are laying down multiple storing information in multiple parts of the brain. So we're still able to access that for a really long time.

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