The Secret Power of Music for Dementia

Joshua Grill, PhD
Director, UC Irvine Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders (UCI MIND)

In the battle against Alzheimer’s disease, Joshua Grill invokes a deceased jazz singer, iPods and a 35,000-year-old vulture bone that cavemen fashioned into a flute. Grill is a neuroscientist whose research interests focus on clinical trials in neurodegenerative disease. He will explain how music is a powerful force and that can tap into the deepest recesses of the mind, stir emotions and conjure memories, and why music memory is one of the last things affected by Alzheimer’s disease.

Meeting Details:

• Friends Room, Central Library, 1000 Avocado Avenue, Newport Beach, CA
• Monday of the month / September to May
• 7:00pm - 8:30pm / doors open at 6:30pm
• FREE (a suggested donation of $10.00 is always appreciated)
• No Reservations required 

For a full list of 2019-2020 season of Medicine in Our Backyard: http://www.nbplfoundation.org/content/Medicine-in-Our-Backyard.html