“Our nervous system doesn’t change moment to moment in any real fundamental way,” she said.
“Whether that actually causes brain damage that you can measure, I don’t think so.” She said only an activity sustained over a long period of time, like learning a musical instrument, could have such dramatic effects. “It doesn’t surprise me at all that he felt wiped,” said Nina Kraus, a professor at Northwestern University who researches the effects of sound on the brain. “It’s a much welcome thing, because it produces the empathy that’s needed.” “The composer of this music really was onto something in terms of being able to - through the medium of music - lead a younger generation on a journey through the sounds of what the brain is going through, through a dementing process,” said Brian Browne, the president of Dementia Care Education, which trains people who work with dementia patients. It’s so horrifying.” He said the album helped him understand his grandfather’s illness. But to think that one day, everything I’ve ever done can just disappear, because of my memory. “I’m still a kid, I don’t have a lot of these responsibilities. “It made me feel like I was so sad, but I was also like, so happy, because it truly made me appreciate this part of my life so much more,” he said of the album. “Never cried listening to something.” His video has been viewed more than 340,000 times. “Literally the definition of pain,” he wrote in the caption. 17, Owen posted a TikTok about how the album had reduced him to tears. “I want him to be OK, and I just wanted to know, like, what was going on,” he said in a phone interview. He was drawn to “Everywhere at the End of Time” because his grandfather was recently diagnosed with dementia. Among them is Owen Amble, 16, from Spokane, Wash.