Alive Inside Page #3

Activate more parts of

The brain than any

Other stimulus.

Music seems to be a cultural

Invention which makes use of

Parts of the brain developed for

Other purposes.

Not only auditory parts,

But visual parts,

Emotional parts,

And at the lower level,

In the cerebellum... All the

Basic parts for coordination.

When we are young, music

Records itself in our motions

And emotions.

Luckily, these are the last

Parts of the brain

Touched by Alzheimer's.

Great song.

Yep.

Can we hold hands a little bit?

Ah, that's better.

We're too far from each other.

For the patients with

Alzheimer's, it has to be

Music which has meaning for them

And is correlated

With memory and feeling.

Hold you so much

And by exciting or awakening

Those pathways, we have

A gateway to stimulate and reach

Somebody who otherwise is

Unreachable.

Yeah, it's not an

Easy life for you.

I love you.

I love you, too.

I have one resident

That barely opened her eyes, she

Didn't respond.

As much as I tried... I knew

Her for two years...

No matter what I tried, massage

Wouldn't work,

Nothing worked.

But when we got introduced to

The iPods and the family

Told me the things that she

Liked, it was amazing once we

Put the iPod on her.

She started shaking her feet,

She started moving her head.

Her son was just amazed...

okay, can we stop?

'Cause now I'm...

getting...

I'm seeing her all over again.

What we're spending on drugs

That mostly don't work dwarfs

What it would take to deliver

Personal music to every

Nursing home resident in

America.

That's to pause it, to

Start it up again,

And hit the button again.

Couldn't be easier.

Yes.

So why don't these people

Have their music already?

And why does it take

An outsider like Dan to

Get it for them?

Ooh

In today's really crazy

System, I can sit down

And write out a script

For a $1,000 a month

Antidepressant, no problem,

Nobody asks any questions.

Ooh

If I want to provide a person

With a $40 personal music

System, that will take a lot of

Work,

Because personal music doesn't

Count as a medical intervention.

You see what I'm saying?

It's sort of a side thing over

Here.

The real business, trust me,

Is in the pill bottle.

Open for me.

Our healthcare system

Imagines the human being to be

A very complicated machine,

And we've figured out

How to turn the dials.

Blood pressure?

Oh, turn that down, you know?

Blood sugar?

Oh, turn that down.

We have medicines that can

Adjust the dials.

We haven't done anything,

Medically speaking, to touch the

Heart and soul of a patient.

Gil?

Yes?

They want you upstairs.

You have to come take your meds.

Mmm.

No, you refused this morning,

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