Music and the Brain with Dr. Barbara Minton (Part 1)

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This episode's guide is Dr. Barbara Mitten — psychologist, musician, and neuroscientist — about the long path that led her to combine creativity, neurofeedback, and clinical care in a new way.

Her new music project is Calm the Storm, created in collaboration with guitarist Pepino D’Agostino, explores how intentional sound may help regulate brain networks related to chronic pain, migraine, insomnia, and stress. Dr. Mitten shares how years of clinical practice, immersion in neurofeedback, and a growing body of music research led her to ask a deceptively simple question: if music can influence the body and brain so profoundly, why isn’t it being used more deliberately?

Together, they explore the science of rhythm, frequency, tempo, entrainment, and individualized brain responses — as well as the more personal side of this work: calling, intuition, collaboration, and the ways music may reach beyond language. This episode is part of our ongoing creativity series, and it expands that conversation in a compelling direction: from creativity as expression to creativity as healing practice.

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