Neuromusicology & Neurologic Music Therapy is a new and modern discipline blending Music and Medicine to treat and address neurologic issues and dysfunctions resulting from diseases of the human nervous system. Neurologic Music Therapy is an amazing alternative to pharmacologic methods in treating these neurologic and mental health problems. Listening to music and particularly playing a musical instrument is considered as the most efficient and effective way for simultaneously triggering and stimulating both hemispheres of the brain. People who listen to music and or play a musical instrument have a thicker corpus callosum than that of those who don’t listen to music regularly. A person who has played a musical instrument for ten to twenty years may have more than 400 million bundle of axons or nerve fibers connecting the two hemispheres of the brain – which is almost double than the average corpus callosum. With that being said, people who regularly listen to music or play a musical instrument possess a higher three dimensional cognitive and intellectual authority than those who are not exposed to music. Playing a musical instrument demands fine motor skills further engaging the motor cortex, which is located in the brain’s frontal lobe, and because music evokes strong emotions, it intensely activates the nucleus accumbens, the amygdala and hippocampus.

Roa is a Neuromusicologist and board-certified Neurologic Music Therapist based in Salt Lake City, Utah, He is an expert lecturer on the Cognitive Neuroscience of Music and the Brain who has travelled extensively to promote this new discipline at hospitals and institutions in Europe, the United States, and Asia - including lectures at Weber State University, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Cebu Institute of Medicine, Chong Hua Hospital Philippines, Cebu Normal University Medical School, St. Anthony Mother & Child Hospital & the University of the Philippines College of Medicine to name a few. Roa is a fierce advocate for the use of creative medicine & non-pharmacologic methods in addressing and treating neurologic and mental health issues