Music gives feeling of being 'Alive Inside'

"Alive Inside" is a documentary that shows how music - especially the music loved by someone during his or her life - helps fight memory loss and brings back a sense of self to people struggling to remember.

The film follows social worker Dan Cohen, who spent eight years fighting the health care system, trying to bring music nursing homes all across the country.

"Music therapists say they're only reaching one percent of the people that could use music, so I'm just trying to get to the other 99 percent," Cohen said.

"It's not a cure but it certainly is effective most of the time," Cohen added.

Writer-director Michael Rossato-Bennett worked alongside Cohen, seeing the effects personalized music has had on people who have been otherwise unresponsive.

"You put people in an institution, you drug them, they disappear, they die. You take a human being and you give them their deepest memories and they come to life," Rossato-Bennett said.

"Alive Inside" is new in limited release.