Overview
- Highlights the therapeutic potentiality of music in several neurological diseases
- Helps to define the processes supported by music in order to influence and sustain wellbeing and mental health
- Approaches musical strategies to boost creativity and to increase brain training to improve physical and mental health
Part of the book series: Neurocultural Health and Wellbeing (NHW)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Bruno Colombo is a board cerified Neurologist with a passionate interest in headache management and patient care. He is founder both of the Italian Neurological Association for the Research on Headache (ANIRCEF) and the Italian Foundation for Headache (FICEF), and currently serves on the board of Directors. He has authored and co-authored 200 articles on peer-reviewed journals and also authored three books.
He has served as Clinical Assistant and Research Worker at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases and Institute of Neurology, London. He is Currently Coordinator and Responsible of the Headache Center at Vita-Salute University, San Raffaele Hospital in Milan. He is academic and tutor in neurology at Vita-Salute University and lecturer at Master on Headache at Biomedical Campus in Rome.
As a musician was first attracted to classical music and progressive rock. At his later teens arrived, Dr. Colombo picked up an interest in jazz music. By the time he began attending Civic School of Music in Milan expanding his listening and playing scope into various jazz forms. Accomplished on guitar and bass, was also adept in drums and percussions. During this time he played around locally semipro with avant-garde jazz combos. Attracted to contemporary music in adulthood he became interested especially in the theories of composer John Cage. At the same time he presented programs for several radio stations considering a broad range of topics: jazz. Rock, popular and contemporary musicDuring his time at University of Milan he first began music criticism, writing record reviews and cultural commentaries for music magazines. He is actually involved both in promoting the study of popular music with an historical perspective, and in studying neural correlates of consonace and dissonance.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Musical Neurons
Editors: Bruno Colombo
Series Title: Neurocultural Health and Wellbeing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08132-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08131-6Published: 20 September 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08134-7Published: 20 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-08132-3Published: 19 September 2022
Series ISSN: 2731-4464
Series E-ISSN: 2731-4472
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 160
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Neurology, Neurosciences, Neuropsychology, Cultural Studies