There is an excellant book called , "Your Brain on Music" that deals with this topic and explains how it works. The white matter in the brain is like the REM on a computer. Your memories and knowledge which you have done repeatedly is hard wired into the brain up until you are between 8 and 11 years old. After that the brain starts building and pruning the grey matter at a much slower pace. The gray matter in the brain, the RAM, is what gives your brain its neuroplasticity, or the ability to build new pathways to bypass damage in the white brain matter. Unfortunately it takes about 10,000 repetitions to be able to build those pathways. Doctors place your hopes in biofeedback techniques to monitor your success. The patient ends up racing the rate the lewy bodies are building up in the brain while you are trying to use the "Music Man's" think system to control your symptoms.

Will the think system win? That remains to be seen. But it is an avenue of Hope. Isn't that why we come here? Looking to each other for hope?

Vicky