Robert Bilder

Discipline: 
Researcher
Healthcare Provider
Health-related organization
Educator
Organization/Affiliation (no abbreviation): 
UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior
Location: 
Los Angeles, CA 90049
United States
Short biography and a description of your interest(s) in music and health: 
Dr. Bilder has more than 30 years experience in research on brain-behavior relations, with experience in clinical neuropsychology, neurophysiology, structural and functional neuroimaging, and genomics strategies as these are applied to the study of both healthy people and those with various neurological and psychiatric syndromes. He is particularly interested in dimensional approaches to understanding mental processes, and in understanding the biological underpinnings of creative cognition. He directs the Tennenbaum Center for the Biology of Creativity and the Mind Well program of the UCLA Healthy Campus Initiative. He directs one of the National Endowment for the Arts Research Labs that is developing an Arts Impact Measurement System at UCLA.

Keywords: 
neuroscience, well-being, psychology