Michigan Music History Podcast -- MMHP989 · Scott Baker, Gary Johnson, Fred Reif, Mike Beattie

Michigan Music History Podcast-Dr. Ed Roth: Michigan's Music Therapist Connects Notes Part 2 of 2

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Mental rehearsal on scales and walking to a beat can change neural circuitry without moving.

1. MMHP989 centers this episode on Dr. Ed Roth and Michigan music therapy. 2. Dr. Ed Roth is the guest, and Scott Baker interviews him because Roth studies how music connects to the brain. 3. The episode asks why music matters biologically, clinically, and personally. 4. Roth says he is leaving Western Michigan University after a quarter century for the University of Houston. 5. He describes the University of Houston as an R1 school with a $350 million research budget and a large student body. 6. Roth says his new appointment includes the Texas Medical Center and a neuroscience role. 7. He compares the Texas Medical Center to a city and says Google Earth showed its footprint larger than Dallas's central business district. 8. Roth says Houston music therapists have already welcomed him and invited him into their projects. 9. He then shifts to the music he listens to, naming jazz, blues, folk musics, Zydeco, Irish reels, and Italian music. 10. Roth says he is applying for dual citizenship in Italy and has a hearing at the Renaissance Center in Detroit in February. 11. He traces his eligibility to a grandmother from Naples and to family documents from Campania and Cole Sanita. 12. Roth says he found his great-grandparents' birth certificates, a cousin's marriage license, and the ancestral home. 13. He says the house had been vacant for 100 plus years and that the town offered it for 100 euros after he first discussed 500 euros. 14. Roth says the buildings in that block could be made livable for about 30,000 bucks per house. 15. He says local people suggested turning the property into summer music therapy work linked to community college construction students. 16. Roth says a Bob Dylan tune still gives him goosebumps after 40 or 50 years. 17. He explains that music activates the brain's reward circuitry, anticipatory reactions, and hair-raising responses before a person feels the full effect. 18. Roth and Scott Baker discuss Alzheimer's examples, hospice audio gifts, childhood speech therapy, and pregnancy-related anxiety reduction. 19. The episode sounds like a warm, technical interview with family references, local humor, and long explanations. 20. People interested in neuroscience, music therapy, and Michigan roots will get the most from it.

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