J Clin Nurs. 2009 Aug;18(15):2153-61.
Soothing music can increase oxytocin levels during bed rest after open-heart surgery: a randomised control trial.
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Centre for Health Care Sciences, Orebro University Hospital and School of Health, Orebro University, P.O. Box 1324, Orebro SE 70113, Sweden. ulrica.nilsson@orebroll.se

AIM: To evaluate the effect of bed rest with music [...]

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Introduction
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The research I am about to present today has taken three years. Its goal was to reduce physiological and emotional stress in patients undergoing general anesthesia. The research questions were:
Is there audio perception when under anesthesia?
Can we find a parameter that would measure the physiological and biochemical effect of music under anesthesia?
As a resident music [...]

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http://the-brain-and-music.blogspot.com/2009/07/music-releases-endorphins-in-brain.html
Everyone knows that music makes them feel better, but apparently, music immediately after surgery is even more powerful than previously known. today I came across this article: By Denise DadorLOS ANGELES (KABC) — A local hospital takes the healing properties of music right to the patients.
She’s in the hospital, but Carol Starks feels she’s being [...]

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Music, the Brain, and Academic Performance

June 21, 2009
Music affects many areas of brain function
by Marjorie H. Weil
Recently the Albion School District announced that, beginning this fall, all fifth- through 12th-graders would be required to take band or choir. Why? Because statistics show that students who do so perform better academically, have higher SAT scores, are [...]

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All Things Considered, May 22, 2009 · We’ve all heard the stories about near-death experiences: the tunnel, the white light, the encounter with long-dead relatives now looking very much alive.
Scientists have cast a skeptical eye on these accounts. They say that these feelings and visions are simply the result of a brain shutting down.
But now [...]

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The following article appeared in the Fall 2008 edition of Parent to Parent, a quarterly publication of the Kentucky School for the Blind) and is reprinted with permission.  
If you had asked me ten years ago about music therapy, I’m sure I couldn’t have given you a good answer. Actually, there’s a lot that I [...]

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Why Does Music Have so Much Power in the Golden Years?
Speaking as an almost 60 y.o., I am increasingly aware on a daily basis that music makes me happy and encouraged when I’m feeling down, it calms me when I’m feeling anxious and it brings back loads of happy memories when life seems dull and [...]

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The operating room of a hospital is a highly stressful place. Surgeons and assistants have to be extremely attentive, moving quickly but carefully. Playing music during surgeries has been shown to relax the staff and the patients. Some of the benefits that extend to the recovery room are lower heart rate, blood pressure and [...]

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