Tennenbaum Center for the Biology of Creativity News
The Help Group's Fall 2009 edition of the HelpLetter features an article by Dr. Istvan Molnar-Szakacs, research neuroscientist at the Tennenbaum Center for the Biology of Creativity, discussing how music may be used as a research tool to help children with ASD overcome their difficulties in social and emotional communication.
22 Oct 09
Nature News published an Oct. 14 feature on Dr. Alcino Silva, professor of neurobiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and professor of psychiatry at the Semel Institute, and his research in mice aiming to enhance how the brain works.
13 Oct 09
In June 2009, newspapers reported that archaeologists in Germany had discovered a 35,000-year-old flute made of bird bone. It represented, one paper said, "the earliest known flowering of music-making in Stone Age culture." And we have been tapping our toes, humming along, singing and dancing ever since. The power of music affects all of us and has long appealed to our emotions. It is for this reason that UCLA researchers are using music to help children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), for whom understanding emotions is a very difficult task. This inability robs them of the chance to c...
19 Jul 09
Istvan Molnar-Szakacs talks with MSN Health & Fitness about why the brain is sometimes beyond its own comprehension.
9 Jun 09
New publication on Emotional Music Perception co-authored by center investigator Istvan Molnar-Szakacs
26 May 09
Five examples of neurological nonsense you can forget about for good.
9 Apr 09
Music has a universal ability to tap into our deepest emotions. Unfortunately, for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), understanding emotions is a very difficult task. Can music help them?
Thanks to funding from the GRAMMY Foundation Grant Program, researchers at UCLA are about to find out.
Individuals with ASD have trouble recognizing emotions, particularly social emotions conveyed through facial expressions
12 May 08
