Prof. Dan Bowling - Music for Mental Health
Date:
Fri, 10/11/2024 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
I'm happy to welcome a new faculty member, Dr. Dan Bowling, to Stanford and the Hearing Seminar. He'll be talking about his research on music and health at the next Hearing Seminar. Please join us.
Who: Dr. Dan Bowling, Stanford Psychiatry's Division of Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences
What: Music and Health: Biological Foundations and Applications
When: Friday October 11th at 10:30AM
Where: CCRMA Seminar Room, Top Floor of the Knoll at Stanford
Why: Music is crucial to our mental health, isn't it?
"Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast, To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak" - Congreve 1697.
Come to CCRMA and we'll improve your mental health with music. Or at least discuss the potential.
- Malcolm
TITLE: Music and Health: Biological Foundations and Applications
Dr. Dan Bowling, Stanford Psychiatry's Division of Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences
ABSTRACT: Every day, hundreds of millions of people turn to music to regulate their mood, take pleasure, and socialize. These effects apply directly to core dimensions of mental health, including affect, reward, and social functioning. This correspondence is attracting attention from public and private investors (e.g., the National Institutes of Health and Universal Music Group). The evidence at hand includes hundreds of controlled trials examining music therapies, meta-analyses of which show clinically significant effects across a broad range of major functional disorders (e.g., of mood, anxiety, sociality, psychosis, and dementia). Building on this success, a variety of new and developing music-based treatments are being sold and tested in support of health and wellness. In this talk, I will present our growing understanding of music’s underlying biology alongside my recent work to combine music neuroscience, therapy, composition, and technology towards new applications designed to increase treatment access and biomedical integration.
BIO: Dan got his PhD in neurobiology from Duke, where he studied musical tonality and vocal affect. He then moved to the University of Vienna for a postdoc in bioacoustics and a fellowship on rhythm and synchrony. Following this, he completed training in translational neuroscience at Stanford Medicine, where he is now an incoming Assistant Professor in Psychiatry’s Division of Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences (DIBS). He’s been a CCRMA member since 2021.
ABSTRACT: Every day, hundreds of millions of people turn to music to regulate their mood, take pleasure, and socialize. These effects apply directly to core dimensions of mental health, including affect, reward, and social functioning. This correspondence is attracting attention from public and private investors (e.g., the National Institutes of Health and Universal Music Group). The evidence at hand includes hundreds of controlled trials examining music therapies, meta-analyses of which show clinically significant effects across a broad range of major functional disorders (e.g., of mood, anxiety, sociality, psychosis, and dementia). Building on this success, a variety of new and developing music-based treatments are being sold and tested in support of health and wellness. In this talk, I will present our growing understanding of music’s underlying biology alongside my recent work to combine music neuroscience, therapy, composition, and technology towards new applications designed to increase treatment access and biomedical integration.
BIO: Dan got his PhD in neurobiology from Duke, where he studied musical tonality and vocal affect. He then moved to the University of Vienna for a postdoc in bioacoustics and a fellowship on rhythm and synchrony. Following this, he completed training in translational neuroscience at Stanford Medicine, where he is now an incoming Assistant Professor in Psychiatry’s Division of Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences (DIBS). He’s been a CCRMA member since 2021.
FREE
Open to the Public
