Question: What was it like to watch someone recover their memory through music?

Steven Brown answered on 15 Jun 2017:

Powerful! A curious mix of happy and sad.

There’s a lot to be said about the detective work I mentioned before – it involves relatives getting to really know who their parents were by digging into their past and learning lots about them. That whole process is itself quite moving. It makes me sad that families do not always talk as much as they should – I don’t know much about my parents’ hopes and dreams, and I doubt they know much about mine.

It’s important to enjoy life and life it to the max – whilst we can.

Music is so important to people that it’s really exciting to know it can have powerful effects on their health. It probably has something to do with being born musical – we basically sing with our Mums in their bodies before we do anything else. Infants even recognise theme tunes to TV shows and music played when in the womb! We just ‘get’ music. It’s even how we learn – when you were a kid I bet you learned through song, rhyming, etc.

One, two, buckly my shoe…