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Your brain has a soundtrack. You may not be aware of it, and it may not even be one that you’ve chosen yourself, but there is a ‘go to’ list of songs and tunes inside your head which has accompanied and defined your whole life. Music and memory are inseparably intertwined. Recently, science has established that sound - perhaps even more so than sight There is just something about hearing a song that you haven’t heard for years that takes you away to a specific time in your life. All of us have differing memories, of course, and those ‘trigger’ songs will be difficult for each of us. There will be a song that will remind you of summertime in your youth. There will be a song that will remind you of your first love. Some songs remind us of going away to college, or coping with grief, or perhaps even a TV show or film that we’re particularly fond of. Who, for example, can think of the Roxy Music clas*ic ‘More Than This’ the same way after they’ve seen ‘Lost in Translation Because music can be used to conjure a memory, it can also be used to evoke nostalgia in the people who hear it; and nostalgia can be a far more powerful tool than most people realize; it’s a feeling that’s capable of making us feel safe and secure, and also bringing comfort and confidence. Accordingly, it’s used in a number of different ways. Amazing as it may sound, various treatments for the elderly or those with medical issues now involve the use of music. Going all the way back to 2011, a video emerged on YouTu*e showing an old man with dementia being given an iPod, full of music from the time he was young. The transformation that it caused within him was incredible and almost instantaneous. From being withdrawn, and seemingly away in his own world, he was suddenly alert and awake, discussing his memories of the era, and the artists that interested him. A man who, moments earlier, wasn’t even sure of his own identity, was now discussing vivid memories of a time