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At the present time, music surrounds us and is available for every one. We are thinking that music is used only for pleasure, dancing, singing, recalling the past times or the people we met on our way years ago. Nowadays we noticed the influence of the music for the neurological disorders. We can see the positive and negative influence of music for the human live. Negative sides of music are musician’s dystonia, musicogenic seizures and auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia. As the positive aspects – music rehabilitation is the promising form of rehabilitation for the patient with aphasia, dementia and after stroke. In case of diseases like Parkinson disease and Huntington disease the most hopeful procedure seems to be rhythmic auditory stimulation. Unfortunately, we must remember that such rehabilitation must be conducted by persons adequately trained because it is easy to cause opposite effect than intended. Anna Krystyna Szewczyk, Konrad Rejdak, Marta Tynecka-Turowska Music and neurological diseases, how music can influence neurological disorders?