Eckart Altenmüller

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Eckart Altenmüller is the Head of the Department for Music-Physiology and Musician’s Medicine at the Hanover University of Music, Drama, and Media. In 2005, Altenmüller was elected President of the German Society of Music Physiology and Musician’s Medicine. Altenmüller has completed degrees in both medicine (awarded by the Eberhard Karls Universität University Tübingen, University Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, and Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) and music (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg). His combined interest in these respective fields seeks to understand how music, and playing music, reflects on the development of brain structures.