Creating Music Using Brain Waves: Just For Fun Or Clinically Important?
If you set the human mind to music, what would it sound like?
Alexandra Sifferlin
Alexandra Sifferlin is a writer and producer for TIME Healthland. She is a graduate from the Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism.
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