english: When I was 17, I visited Dr. Schlaug's lab, and in one afternoon he walked me through some of the leading research on music and the brain -- how musicians had fundamentally different brain structure than non-musicians, how music, and listening to music, could just light up the entire brain, from our prefrontal cortex all the way back to our cerebellum, how music was becoming a neuropsychiatric modality to help children with autism, to help people struggling with stress and anxiety and depression, how deeply Parkinsonian patients would find that their tremor and their gait would steady when they listened to music, and how late-stage Alzheimer's patients, whose dementia was so far progressed that they could no longer recognize their family, could still pick out a tune by Chopin at the piano that they had learned when they were children.
non_english: Kao sedamnaestogodišnjak posećivao sam  laboratoriju doktora Šlauga i jednog popodneva me proveo kroz jedno od vodećih istraživanja o muzici i mozgu - o tome kako su muzičari imali iz temelja drugačiju strukturu mozga  u odnosu na ne-muzičare, kako muzika i slušanje muzike, može jednostavno da osvetli ceo mozak, od prednjeg mozga pa sve do malog mozga, o tome kako muzika postaje neuropsihijatrijski metod za pomoć autističnoj deci, za pomoć onima koji se bore protiv stresa, anksioznosti i depresije, kako se teško obolelim od parkinsonove bolesti  primetno smirivalo podrhtavanje i hod postajao stabilniji kada bi slušali muziku i kako bi oboleli od Alchajmerove bolesti,  čija je senilna demencija toliko uznapredovala da nisu više prepoznavali svoju porodicu, još uvek mogli  prepoznati Šopenovu melodiju za klavir koju su naučili kada su bili deca.