you're on the board of the institute for music and neurologic function. and i was reading about them. it's really fascinating work, looking at the science of how to use music as therapy for people from-- those who have alzheimer's and parkinson's to stroke. can music heal people? >> it can, and it can in very real non-anecdotal ways. basically, up until about-- and i don't wanna seem too pedantic, but up until about 20 or 30 years ago, most neuroscientists believed that we had a finite number of neurons. now, let's say you hit 10 years old, you had all the brain cells you were ever gonna have. and the goal was to just, like, try and not get rid of too many of them. thanks to, like, fmris and pet scans, and new diagnostics, neurologists and neuroscientists have discovered that the brain can go-- can be involved in this process of neurogenesis, of making new brain cells forever, up until the day you die, largely based on what we do with the brain. you know, so the nice thing is, neurogenesis is promoted by health and well being. you know, so being physically

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institutions open wasn't the answer. >>amanda: alright. well, we appreciate that you're gonna stick around with us for the next half hour or so. (music) >>amanda: we've got him for the whole show, folks. (chuckling) >>amanda: another topic that has a lot of people talking, changing iowa's medicaid system. we'll talk to the governor about the reasons to go (music) >>amanda: welcome back. we're going to move our discussion now on to a big undertaking by the branstad administration that's happening right now. moving iowa's medicaid program to managed care organizations. some positive news coming out late this week that three more major hospital systems have signed on to the plan. the university of iowa hospitals and clinics, unity point and genesis health system. that is good news because the criticism that we've been hearing from people in the industry is that not enough of these hospitals and health care providers have signed on yet to give people a good idea of what their options are before the rollout date of january 1st. so we've actually contacted dhs for a couple of weeks now. >>mr. branstad: yeah. >>amanda: i know they're trying

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for a visit. ♪ >> reporter: 25-year-old daniel par vin has a lot on his mine these days as he finishes up his ph.d. at the cheefld institute of musict one thing he doesn't worry about -- >> i've got the best student housing arrangement in cleveland, i think. >> reporter: it's not just the apartment in a vintage one-time luxury hotel. or the gran piano in the lounge. it's his house mates. >> i hin herit 100 surrogate grandparents here and they are really dear friends of mine. >> reporter: johnson manor is home to both students and seniors a novel arrangement combining college students and retirees that started five years ago. >> oh, perfect. >> reporter: 79-year-old laura barrack has four sons and six biological grand zmirn she is as much of my family. i see more of her than i do some of my adult grandkids. >> reporter: what could they possibly have in common? turns out a lot. >> we found a lot of things. cooking, sharing a meal, talking about art. talking about music. >> reporter: the students get free housing in exchange for performing once a month. residents say these young neighbors keep them young. >> you see a young person com

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institution in jeff pierce capture the morning celebration every christmas morning today was no exception. each >> reporter: crispness for have said the retreat the reverend in san francisco presides over the ensemble for the holiday. music and singing playing foxhoun music and singing >> grant: the 800 meals prepared to give the salvation army and then delivered people who can't get other homes. on homes there were there this morning than not there with the representative of helping make a difference. volunteer >> grant: is shut up as early as 430 the start help for the day. a group >> grant: picture there of a great store police officer's delivering christmas guest of family burglarized earlier this week happening wednesday and then the official said the so called presence for the families for kids they delivered them last night and police in the hope of restoring some hope and happiness to the family across the south rain flooding of the northeast as having a warm christmas an update on the weather at and holiday spirit in full swing heavily on the world celebrated at a holiday tradition and christmas for every one of them >> grant: running holiday tradition over 1500 families his the dominion was there with what is c

for a group of college students in cleveland, home has become a local retirement community. >> reporter: 25-year-old daniel his mind these days as he finishes up his ph.d. at the cleveland institute of music, but one thing he doesn't worry about -- >> that i have the best student housing arrangement in cleveland. >> reporter: it is not just an apartment in a luxury hotel or the grand piano in the lounge. it's his housemates. >> i have 100 surrogate grandparents here and they're really dear friends of mine. >> reporter: it is home to both students and senior, a novel arrangement combining college kids and retirees five years ago. >> she eats as much as my family. i see more of her than i do some of my adult grandkids. >> reporter: what could they possibly have in common? turns out a lot. >> we enjoy cooking, sharing a meal, talking about music. >> reporter: the students get free housing in exchange for performing once a month. residents say these young neighbors keep them young. >> when you see a young person coming toward you, you want to look alive. you want to look like you're still part of it. >> i see them wearing something or carrying something. what the hell is that? >> reporter: no

for being with us, dr. james hansen, director of climate science at columbia universities are institute. this is democracy now! we will be back in a minute. ♪ [musicamy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. from cop21,casting summit in.n. climate paris, france. we will be here for another week covering the paris accord. it's called the family photo, the image of over 100 world leaders who gathered here in paris on the opening day of the united nations climate summit. organizers said it marked the largest gathering of heads of state in history. but who is missing from the picture? perhaps there's a clue the french national motto, liberty, equality, fraternity. where are the women? only a handful of female heads of state appear in the photo. when it comes to the national delegations negotiating a global climate treaty here at cop21, women are still few and far between. we turn now to two african-american women who are making their voices heard here at cop21. africa has been praised here for leading the way on renewable energy, with the african development bank announcing this week it would spend $12 bi

of these familiar feelings and music cues start coming in, you're like, oh, i'm back, which is a great feeling for a fan. >> talk about the hype. the american film instituteected film seven as one of the best of the year. >> oh, wow, i haven't seen that. i've seen pretty decent critical approval for it. our writer, brian bishop, who wrote our review, i think he gave it like a score of 90 or something on meta critic. it's up there. it doesn't really matter, though, honestly at the end of the day what critics think of it because, like we said, there's so many people who are already going to see it. if you're a fan, you're going to enjoy it on some level, no matter what. >> olivia, tell me about the sale of tickets, as you're saying, is just through the roof. >> through the roof. add studios and theaters all across the country fans are lining up all the door. here in new york city, not quite yet. a lot of people buy tickets online. we expect them to start lining up before the 7 p.m. debut. people want to wait in line just in order to get the best possible seats. there are actually two guys sitting outside all by themselves on the sidewalk right now. they've