Music and the Brain

Dear Oregon Symphony Friends,

As part of OHSU’s Brain Awareness Season 2007, OHSU and the Oregon Symphony are pleased to celebrate our third year of partnership aimed at enlightening Oregonians about the intersection between neuroscience and the arts.

On Tuesday, February 6, the OHSU Brain Institute (OBI) will kick-off the 2007 Brain Awareness Season with a lecture focused on hearing and music and the brain by two national experts in the field, Teresa Nicolson, Ph.D. Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, and Daniel Levitin, Ph.D. author of This Is Your Brain On Music. They will explore and explain the basis of sound perception and the science of a human obsession with music down through the ages – how and why it affects us so much, both emotionally and cognitively. More and more studies are showing that the arts are an integral part of learning, thinking and participating in society. The power of music interacts with the mysteries of our minds in many ways.

We hope you will join us for this fascinating look at the magic of music and why we, in Oregon, are especially fortunate to have such excellent opportunities to hear exceptional symphonic music and learn about how it affects our brains from one of the top neuroscience institutions in the country, the OHSU Brain Institute.

To register for this and other lectures and for more information on all Brain Awareness events, please visit www.oregonbrains.org.

Sincerely,