Last weekend, Silicon Valley scientists and SJSU School of Music alumni collaborated on a revolutionary theatrical production. I had to go to Beverly Hills to see it.

Jake Broder’s play, UnRavelled, featured original music and sound design by Mark Grey, yet they were just two artists in a powerful creative alliance of theater-makers, neuroscientists, musicians, actors and brain health clinicians, all to elevate a true story, that of the remarkable connection between the work of Canadian painter Dr. Anne Adams (1940–2007) and French composer Maurice Ravel (1875–1937). Both Adams and Ravel lived with the same brain disease, frontotemporal dementia (FTD), almost 100 years apart.

The production brought expertise across disciplines with a few shared missions: to destigmatize dementia via empa

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