Musical Minds with Indre Viskontas

Everyone enjoys music and some are skilled in producing music.  Neuroscientist and opera singer Indre Viskontas has worked to understand how the brain processes and generates music, and how music can be used to help people with neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease. Here she talks about her experiences growing up in a musical family and becoming a neuroscientist, and her research at UCLA and the University of San Franscisco and the San Francisco Conservatory of music.

Dr. Viskontas is the hose of the “Inquiring Minds” podcast and the author of the book “How Music Can Make You Better”

Indre’s webpage: https://www.indreviskontas.com/

Inquiring Minds podcast: https://inquiring.show/

San Francisco Conservatory of Music: https://sfcm.edu/

University of San Francisco webpage: https://www.usfca.edu/faculty/indre-viskontas

Review article: “Music in the Brain”: file:///Users/markmattson/Downloads/s41583-022-00578-5%20(1).pdf