ABOUT DANIEL

Daniel J. Levitin is a neuroscientist, cognitive psychologist, musician, and bestselling author. He is Founding Dean of Arts & Humanities at Minerva University in San Francisco, and James McGill Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neuroscience at McGill University in Montreal. He is the author of five consecutive bestselling books: This Is Your Brain on Music, The World in Six Songs, The Organized Mind, A Field Guide to Lies and Successful Aging (published in the UK as The Changing Mind).

His newest book, I Heard There Was A Secret Chord: Music As Medicine (published in the UK as Music as Medicine), hit the bestseller lists in its first week of release.

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My mandarins are almost ready to eat! #gardening #mandarins #citrus #linkinbio

#theorganizedmind #authorsofinstagram #regram #neuroscience

The most fun I’ve ever had in radio. Thank you @bbc and @berkeleymichael https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0028201

Happy Birthday, Howie Klein…celebrating 43 years of dinners, music, and friendship. #friends #birthdays #authorsofinstagram #musiciansofinstagram #linkinbio

Getting ready for tonight’s show with @rodneyjcrowell @sambakermusic Happy Valentine’s Day in Nashville #valentine #musiciansofinstagram #songwriters

Dinner after the #savannahbookfestival with @scott_turow_author and friends. #authorsofinstagram #authorslife #musiciansofinstagram #linkinbio

Remembering Eggberta. She adopted me after I first moved to California. She came up to the front door and pecked on the glass next to it, asking to be picked up and loved on. I bought her some dried worms at a bait shop and gave them to her as specia

Music as Medicine is out now. Thank you, London, for a great launch week. #authorsofinstagram #musiciansofinstagram #musicismedicine #musicasmedicine #linkinbio

I’m never happy to see when a fellow scientist is accused of misleading people, but I singled out David Sinclair in my 2020 book “Successful Aging” for making claims about his anti-aging products that were unsupported. 4 yrs later,

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