Samuel Markind, MD
Samuel Markind, MD, is a neurologist with more than 30 years of experience in clinical practice as well as a student of piano and dance. He has fused his passions for music and brain science into presentations for health care professionals and now wishes to share them with a wider audience.
January Blog Post
How Music Enhances Our Brains and Our Lives
Insights from the career of Professor Paul Colombo.
View the post here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/music-between-your-ears/202601/how-music-enhances-our-brains-and-our-lives
Image: Music is found just about everywhere in New Orleans, even at a simple beignet stop. Source: Photo by author
December Blog Post
Music: When Sound Becomes Feeling and Movement
Why you love the music you do and how it impacts your body and mind.
View the post here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/music-between-your-ears/202512/music-when-sound-becomes-feeling-and-movement
Image by John Zook / Pexels
November Blog Post
Science Partnering With the Arts Enhances Medical Education
A retired physician-musician seeks to bring medicine and the arts closer.
View the post here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/music-between-your-ears/202511/science-partnering-with-the-arts-enhances-medical-education
Image: Musicians by Yrjö Ollila (1928) National Library of Finland
Source: Europeana / Unsplash
October Blog Post
Let Music Be Your Medicine
Exploring ways to deliver rhythmic frequencies to improve memory.
View the post here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/music-between-your-ears/202510/let-music-be-your-medicine
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
September Blog Post
The Rhythm of Music Couples Our Bodies and Minds
Keeping the beat is vital to teamwork and human success.
View the post here:
Photo by Thiago Miranda / Pexels
New “Psychology Today” Blog
I am pleased to announce that Psychology Today has invited me to write a blog on their platform. These posts will explore the multi-faceted relationships between music and the brain. If you have an idea for a future post, please write to me and let me know.
See my contributor page:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/samuel-h-markind-md
Read my August blog post:
Learn More From Sam About Music & The Brain
The Paradoxical Brain
Thinking creative thoughts and getting those thoughts out of one’s head into the world are separate brain processes. Maurice Ravel’s decline demonstrates this situation. This brief video summarizes how the separation of these processes occurs as well as Ravel’s observations of his own decline. (Video excerpt from the 2025 Creativity & Madness conference with the kind permission of Dr. Amy Vail.)
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The Value of Entrainment
We humans are able to coordinate movements of our body with rhythm. This property, called entrainment, is one of the foremost attributes of music. In this brief video, I explain 2 of entrainment’s virtues – it is prosocial and productive. (Video excerpt from the 2021 Creativity & Madness conference with the kind permission of Dr. Amy Vail.)
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Did Beatles’ music fund the development of brain scans?
EMI (Electric & Musical Industries) was a British company best known for producing and selling Beatles records…..
Speaking Engagements
Dr. Markind will speak at the 2025 Creativity & Madness conference in Santa Fe. Presented by the American Institute of Medical Education, this meeting runs from July 31-August 3. Join in person or remotely.
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