A growing number of studies show the promise of various music interventions in alleviating pain and treating neurological, psychological, and developmental disorders. Music and Memory is one of many organizations working to improve people’s lives through the therapeutic properties of music. When an interviewer asks Henry, “What does music do to you?” Henry responds without missing a beat, “It gives me the feeling of love… I figure right now the world needs to come into music.” Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring with it memory.” Furthermore, Sacks explains, “music brings back the feeling of life when nothing else can.” “Music imprints itself on the brain deeper than any other human experience. Oliver Sacks, a neurologist and author of Musicophilia, who is featured in the documentary. “The philosopher Kant once called music the ‘quickening art.’ And Henry is being quickened, he’s being brought to life,” says Dr. Almost instantly, we see Henry swaying from side to side and singing, his eyes wide open. In the above clip, Henry is barely responsive before one of his caretakers puts headphones on him and starts up one of his favorite tunes. Alive Inside follows the “awakening” that occurs when people suffering from memory loss and Alzheimer’s are given music they have a strong emotional connection to, often music they grew up with.
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