Senior Capstone Presentation
Music and
You
The New York Times-
“Music does not simply appeal to the
emotions...but stimulates the whole
consciousness of man, harmonizing his powers
until he feels a joy in their liberation.”
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➢ How does music affect our brains and emotions?
➢ How effective is music as therapy?
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Table of Contents
★ Essential Questions
★ Music on the Brain
★ Why I Chose This Topic
★ Rhythms
★ Important Definitions
★ Musical Emotions
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Table of Contents, Cont’d
★ Music-Based Study
★ Informational Video
★ Intermission
★ What Is Music Therapy?
★ Musical Attachment
★ A Word From the Experts
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Why I Chose
This Topic
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IMPORTANT DEFINITIONS
◍ ANHEDONIA:
The inability to feel pleasure
◍ DOPAMINE:
A neurotransmitter released in your
brain that causes you to feel pleasure
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Music On The Brain
INTERESTING FACT: Did you know you subconsciously
sync your breathing to the song you listen to?
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Rhythms of Life
❖ Heartbeat
❖ Breathing
❖ Movement of sun/moon
❖ Tides
❖ Medicinal schedule
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Name some
rhythms you can
think of in your
daily life
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Musical Intuition
Relating to music is
a primitive human
instinct!
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EVIDENCE
HYPOTHESIS
Humans have an emotional
attachment to music
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep41952
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➔
Participants gathered
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NTX distributed, study
begins
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Anhedonia effective
against music
So how
does
this affect
your
emotions?
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ADDICTION
Pleasure
Centre
Dru
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Intermission!
Getting bored?
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Which of the following is true about The Beatles?
A.
Paul McCartney’s first instrument was a guitar
B.
None of The Beatles could read or write music
C.
John Lennon was raised by his father
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B!
None of the
Beatles could
read or write
music.
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Who tried to buy Marvel Comics in the
late 90’s?
A.
Snoop Dogg
B.
Elton John
C.
Michael Jackson
D.
Tupac
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C!
Michael
Jackson tried
to buy Marvel
Comics
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Who was the first and only band to
perform on all 7 continents?
A.
Metallica
B.
Smashing Pumpkins
C.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
D.
The Goo Goo Dolls
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A!
Metallica is the
first and only
band to have
played on all 7
continents
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We’re Back!
Um… What were we talking about?
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Examples of attachment?
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My Examples
“Make You Mine” -Public
“Speechless” -Dan+Shay
“Lights Down Low” -MAX ft. Gnash
“Somebody Told Me” -The Killers
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How can this
information be
applied to
therapy?
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Let’s ask the
experts!
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Who?
★ Dr. Andrea Sackett, Clinical Psychologist
★ Dr. Emily Broadhurst, Music Therapist
★ Dr. Nicki Cohen, Music Therapist
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“I cannot foresee [the clients] being willing
to pay for music as ‘therapy’ rather than
traditional forms of therapy”.
- Dr. Emily Sackett
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So what is music
therapy?
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Sit with therapist
and talk to unearth
feelings
Verbally moving
through emotions
Client does not have
to discuss feelings
Express
innermost
thoughts
Receive feedback,
advice, diagnoses,
etc.
Move through
emotions through
musical experiences
Not for diagnoses;
self-expression
Traditional Therapy
Music Therapy
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“
“It just doesn’t feel the same for them.”
- Dr. Emily Broadhurst
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“I would ask my patients to improvise at
the beginning of their sessions as a means
of determining their mood state.”
- Dr. Nicki Cohen
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Recap
❖
Rhythms are
everywhere
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Enjoyment comes from
emotional attachment
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Music = pleasure
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Music therapy unique, effective
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“[The musical ability] must be ranked
amongst the most mysterious with
which [man] is endowed.”
—Charles Darwin
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Works Cited
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/12/25/-.html?pageNumber=10
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/320737.php?scrlybrkr=6753e2ae#1
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/science-choice/201908/music-emotion-and-well-being
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep41952
https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/what-is-dopamine#1
https://bestlifeonline.com/music-facts/
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg-/full
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC-/
https://www.musictherapy.org/
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