Susan DrummCEO Advisor & Executive Coach | Leadership Change Agent

What Music Does to Your Brain Will Surprise You #shorts

8 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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Susan Drumm explains that music enhances communication between four brain regions and can accelerate synapse formation. She gives an anecdotal clinical example: playing a favorite song can revive unresponsive Alzheimer’s patients — they begin speaking and brain-wide activation is visible on MRI — illustrating music’s powerful therapeutic effect.

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But music will actually allow these synapses to form more quickly because of the enhanced communication between the four regions of the brain. If you know anything about Alzheimer's patients who are unresponsive, who they bring music therapy into, they are unresponsive, and they put on their favorite song, and they literally, like, they have them listen to music, and they come alive, they start talking. And this can be seen in an mri, where all the parts of the brain are lighting up, and these connections that have become dormant with age fire back up again. And so if music can bring an Alzheimer's patient from unresponsiveness to responsiveness, think about the power that's there for you in that.