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For dozens of years, doctors have realized that listening to music can have positive effects on all sorts of patients.
Albert Yost has enjoyed music and entertained with it for more than 50 years.
He believes songs not only live in our brains, but in our toes, fingers, and mouths.
“Inside each of us there's a symphony going at all times,” said Dan Lloyd, Phd. with Trinity College. “We're never quiet inside. Basically, I think of the brain as if it were a musical instrument.”
Lloyd is turning brain scans into music in order to get a better idea of what’s going on in the brain.
When brains are scanned, active areas light up and are assigned a different note.
As the intensity of the activity increases, so does the volume of the sound.
“So here we have all the areas of the brain playing together as our subject looks at a flashing checkerboard,” said Lloyd.
Lloyd has created symphonies using the brains of people of all ages, and even those with mental illnesses.
“I think with the brains in schizophrenia, there's a tendency for things to drift out of synchrony and so it comes out a little jazzier,” said Lloyd.
Researchers said it is possible to use brain music to help diagnose conditions like schizophrenia.
There are thousands of notes possible in each brain, but only a few dozen have been mapped.
