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  • Lasting Effects of Musical Experience

    At the NYAS March 2011 Music, Science and Medicine conference, speaker Nina Kraus, Hugh Knowles Chair in Audiology at Northwestern University, discusses the long lasting effects that musical experience has on nervous system development which impact very basic communication skills.

    For other illuminating interviews and videos of the speaker presentations made at this conference, visit The Science Network.

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    At the NYAS March 2011 Music, Science and Medicine conference, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and 2010 Blavatnik Award winner, Daniela Schiller, talks to Roger Bingham about how she got into science and reviews research in modifying fear memories.

    At the NYAS March 2011 Music, Science and Medicine conference, speaker Nina Kraus, Hugh Knowles Chair in Audiology at Northwestern University, discusses the long lasting effects that musical experience has on nervous system development which impact very basic communication skills.

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    At the NYAS March 2011 Music, Science and Medicine conference, scientific co-organizer, Joseph LeDoux, Director of the Center for the Neuroscience of Fear and Anxiety, talks about his "heavy mental" band, the Amygdaloids, which plays all original songs about mind and brain disorders. LeDoux discusses his research into fear and emotion, what the Amygdala does and what functional imaging tells us.

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