<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>Greetings,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>        Ahh! yes! The Hippocampus. Great stuff!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This relates to not only tuning but music sight reading ability. From what I read, the hippocampus is a part of the brain that is used for short term memory tasks, such as remembering a phone number just long enough to get to a pad and pencil to jot it down.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>      From what I read, music sight reading ablilty is affected by the condition of the hippocampus.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Recent research has uncovered (2009, thereabouts) that the Hippocampus is the only part of the brain that actually has its cells constantly renewed. In PTSD victims the hippocampus is smaller than the person's who does not have PTSD. This article that I read online about a year ago stated that this is because a PSTD victim stores and only replays the trauma via hippocampus and that memory sort of "occupies" the hippocampus and that is the only thing it renews, that is until the trauma is addressed and somehow eliminated. There's a lot of good articles online about it.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>    A new therapy called EMDR is claimed to help PSTD victims. Interesting stuff. Yes, Yes.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Julia Gottshall RPT</DIV> <DIV>Reading PA  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>       </DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 8/29/2012 5:55:36 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, David@piano.plus.com writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><FONT face=Arial>Check this out! <A class=moz-txt-link-freetext title=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19398413 href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19398413">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19398413</A>  A customer of mine sent the link this morning.<BR><BR>You may know of the effect where London Cab Drviers, who have to demonstarte an extremely thorough knowledge of street navigation in a test before they can get a licence, have been found to have an enlarged hippocampus.  The test, which is called "The Knowledge" is unique in the world, and it can take prospective taxi drivers years to learn the streets by walking and cycling.<BR><BR>Now it seems that piano tuning also affects the hippocampus!<BR><BR>Best regards,<BR><BR>David.<BR><A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated title=http://www.davidboyce.co.uk/ href="http://www.davidboyce.co.uk/">www.davidboyce.co.uk</A><BR></FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>