Integrative Medicine Research Lecture Series
The NCCAM Integrative Medicine Research Lecture Series provides overviews of the current state of research and practice involving complementary and alternative medicine practices and approaches, and explores perspectives on the emerging discipline of integrative medicine.
Location: Lectures are held at 10:00 a.m. in Lipsett Amphitheater at the NIH Clinical Research Center (Building 10) and are open to the public. Lectures are videocast at videocast.nih.gov.
Upcoming Lectures
Date: May 13, 2013 - 10:00a.m. ET
Note: This lecture will be held in Building 31, 6C, Room 10
In this lecture, Dr. Aniruddh (Ani) Patel will examine what measurable impacts musical listening and musical training have on the human brain, and what neurobiological mechanisms support these effects. These impacts can be divided into two broad categories: effects that occur while the music is being heard, and longer-lasting effects on other cognitive and emotional functions. Of particular interest in the latter category are impacts of musical training on nonmusical brain functions such as language and attention, as mediated by mechanism of experience-dependent neural plasticity. This talk will discuss existing studies pertinent to these issues, and point out directions for future research.
