Tommy Sands has for many years been involved in the Irish peace process as a songwriter, performer, and mediator. His songs, which have been translated into many languages, appear in schoolbooks around the world and have been recorded by Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, and dozens of others. He continues to work on social activism projects using music for conflict resolution.

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Music Mends Minds encourages you to read more about him and his work:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Sands_(Irish_singer)

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Dr. Jeff Bronstein is a highly awarded researcher of Neurology and one of Music Mends Minds' earliest and most significant supporters.

His interests and expertise include the management of Parkinson's disease (PD) and other movement disorders, surgical treatment of PD, and developing new therapies for patients.

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Music Mends Minds encourages you to read more about him at:

https://www.uclahealth.org/providers/jeff-bronstein

Dr. Theodore Zanto utilizes fMRI, EEG and non-invasive brain stimulation techniques to study neural mechanisms at the intersection of attention, perception, and memory. He is interested in the role of neural entrainment in cognitive control and how it may be used as a potential therapeutic, particularly in the aging population. Currently, Dr. Zanto is assessing how neural entrainment affects basic cognitive control functions and whether select cognitive functions may be improved through neural entrainment with musical rhythms or with non-invasive rhythmic neurostimulation.

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Music Mends Minds encourages you to read more about him at:

https://neuroscape.ucsf.edu/profile/theodore-zanto/

Dr. Robert Bilder has more than 30 years experience in research on brain-behavior relations, with focuses in clinical neuropsychology, neurophysiology, structural and functional neuroimaging, and genomics strategies applied to the study of both healthy people and those with various neurological and psychiatric conditions. Dr. Bilder discusses his work with the Center for the Biology of Creativity and the neural mechanisms of memory and music-making.

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Music Mends Minds encourages you to read more about him at:

https://www.uclahealth.org/providers/robert-bilder

Dr. Bruce Victor discusses his career as a musician, physician, and professor. His academic focus has been on psychopharmacology, holistic healing, and community engagement through music, both in the United States and Ireland.

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Music Mends Minds encourages you to read more about him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/bruce-s-victor-m-d-d-l-f-a-p-a-50496a3/

Dr. Mukund Acharya discusses his career as a social entrepreneur and healthy aging advocate. He has founded/co-founded several non-profits including Sandhya's Touch, focused on improving quality of life for patients and families dealing with serious or chronic illness, and Sukham, which promotes healthy aging and preparation for life transitions in the healthcare arena.

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Music Mends Minds encourages you to read more about him at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mukund-acharya-7345521a

Dr. Rudolph Tanzi discusses groundbreaking progress in the fight to cure Alzheimer's and the ways music can help alleviate symptoms and promote brain connectivity.

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Music Mends Minds encourages you to read more about him at:

https://brain.harvard.edu/?people=rudolph-e-tanzi

Dr. Mary Mittelman discusses her research surrounding music's effects on the wellbeing of both patients and their caregivers.

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Music Mends Minds encourages you to read more about her at: https://med.nyu.edu/faculty/mary-s-mittelman

Dr. Theresa Allison discusses her background in ethnomusicology and how she came to study music's potential to improve the quality of life in dementia caregiver relationships.

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Music Mends Minds encourages you to read more about Dr. Theresa Allison and her work at: https://geriatrics.ucsf.edu/people/theresa-allison

Dr. Julene Johnson talks about her career studying music, health and aging, and the importance of community interventions. She also discusses the initiatives and research process within the Sound Health Network.

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Music Mends Minds encourages you to read more about Dr. Johnson and her work at: https://profiles.ucsf.edu/julene.johnson