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Music & Brain: From Health to Healing

Date: January 20, 2023 - 09:00 a.m. ET to 6:00 p.m. ET

Harvard University NorthWest Labs 52 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA

Event Description

Time	Activity
Morning	Neuroscience of Music
9:00–9:10 a.m.	Event presentation: Michela Fagiolini and Takao Hensch
9:10–10:30 a.m.	Speaker 1: Robert Zatorre (McGill University) From Perception to Pleasure: Music and its Neural Substrates Speaker 2: Psyche Loui (Northeastern University) Musical Preferences From Hierarchical Mapping of Predictions to Reward
10:30–11:00 a.m.	Coffee break
11:00 a.m.–12:45 p.m.	Speaker 3: Takao Hensch (Harvard University) Emotion Regulation Sculpted by Childhood Music Speaker 4: Adam Ockelford (University of Roehampton) Music, Language and Autism: Exceptional Strategies for Exceptional Minds Performance by Derek Paravicini
12:45–2:00 p.m.	Lunch break
Afternoon	Music Therapy
2:00–2:45 p.m.	Breakout sessions: Music circles
2:45–4:05 p.m.	Speaker 5: Kathleen Howland (Berklee School of Music) Music Therapy in Parkinson’s Disorder Speaker 6: Dario Masala (Swim ‘n’ Swing) Rhythms for Space-Time Awareness and Social Inclusion
4:05–4:35 p.m.	Coffee break
4:35–6:00 p.m.	Music and Movement
4:35–6:00 p.m.	Live performance by Jean Appolon Expression Group Concluding Remarks
Evening	Reception

Questions? Conte@harvard.edu