Investigation of the hippocampus has historically focused on computations within the
trisynaptic circuit. However, discovery of important anatomical and functional variability …

Music has always played a central role in human culture. The question of how musical
sounds can have such profound emotional and rewarding effects has been a topic of interest …

Background The dystonias include a clinically and etiologically very diverse group of
disorders. There are both degenerative and non-degenerative subtypes resulting from …

After a brief historical perspective of the relationship between language and music, we
review our work on transfer of training from music to speech that aimed at testing the general …

The hippocampus is particularly vulnerable to the neurotoxic effects of obesity, diabetes
mellitus, hypertension, hypoxic brain injury, obstructive sleep apnoea, bipolar disorder …

Background Personalized music programs have been proposed as an adjunct therapy for
patients with Alzheimer disease related dementia, and multicenter trials have now …

Experience-dependent characteristics of auditory function, especially with regard to speech-
evoked auditory neurophysiology, have garnered increasing attention in recent years. This …

A remarkable feature of the human brain is its ability to integrate information from the
environment with internally generated content. The integration of top-down and bottom-up …

The hippocampus has a well-established role in spatial and episodic memory but a broader
function has been proposed including aspects of perception and relational processing …

In a previous study we demonstrated that listening to a pleasant music while performing an
academic test helped students to overcome stress, to devote more time to more stressful and …