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JOIN US: Sept 29th for "What's that Melody in Your Mind? New Discoveries in Music and Brain Science" with Vincent de Luise MD, WSO's Cultural Ambassador
Music surrounds us. It is part of who we are as humans. How foundational is music? Did it precede language? Join Vincent de Luise, M.D. on Tuesday, September 29th at 6:00PM at the Woodbury Library for a talk about new research and discoveries in the Neuroscience of Music.
Dr. de Luise will review the Mozart Effect, and where music goes in the brain. He will discuss how some music creates “chills down the spine”, and why major chords often sound happy whereas minor chords usually seem sad. Does music have color? Can we paint in notes? Can the brain make its own music? He will take participants on a deep dive into the power and efficacy of Music Therapy and look at how music can help those with Alzheimer Disease, Parkinson Disease, stroke, and traumatic brain injury. Yes, music can indeed heal!
Vincent de Luise M.D. F.A.C.S. is an assistant clinical professor of ophthalmology at Yale University School of Medicine, and a distinguished visiting scholar at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. He is also on the adjunct faculty of Weill Cornell Medical College and serves on the advisory board of its Music and Medicine Orchestra. Dr. de Luise is a graduate of Princeton University, Weill Cornell Medical College and the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute. He was a Heed Fellow at the Proctor Foundation of UCSF, and a
Fellow at Harvard University's Advanced Leadership Institute.
Dr de Luise is the cultural ambassador and a program annotator of the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra and is president of the Connecticut Summer Opera Foundation. As a clarinetist, Dr. deLuise organized the Connecticut Mozart Festival and co-founded the annual classical music recital at the American Academy Ophthalmology. He is active as a chamber music recitalist and lectures frequently on music and the arts.
