This is Your Brain on Drumming

The neuroscience behind the beat

Jennifer Conghalaigh
The Startup
Published in
5 min readSep 25, 2019

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The first sound everyone on Earth heard was the sound of our mother’s heartbeat. Our relationship with rhythm began in the womb. As human beings, we are intrinsically rhythmic, and this rhythm is a potent source of well-being.

The ritual use of rhythmically beating a drum is one of the oldest practices of humankind. The beat of the…

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Jennifer Conghalaigh
The Startup

Exploring the realm between neuroscience and spirituality