Many famous composers, performers and artists were definitively diagnosed with a serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia. Robert Schumann died in an “asylum” in Germany after attempting suicide by jumping off a bridge into the Rhine river. Many composers suffered from severe depression and alcoholism. These illnesses have no correlation with intelligence or talent. Today […]
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Noted Boston surgeon to participate in voice seminar
On Jan. 22-24, noted Boston throat specialist Dr. James Burns will be a guest faculty member at the third annual Contemporary Commercial Music Seminar offered by the UMass Dartmouth Music Department. Burns, a partner of world-renowned voice specialist Dr. Steven Zeitels, is a staff surgeon at the Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for Laryngeal Surgery and […]
Music Therapy Effective at End of Life
THURSDAY, Dec. 31 (HealthDay News) — Music therapy is used to help Alzheimer’s patients remember and autistic children calm down. Now, a University of Alabama student is using her voice and guitar to comfort dying patients in hospice. Families gathered around the bedside of a dying loved one often request hymns, such as “Amazing Grace,” […]
Two Major National Hospitals Now Recommend Music for Surgery
As the concept of music during surgery becomes better and better known and accepted, more hospitals around the United States and Europe and Asia are accepting its benefits and recommending it to their surgical patients.
Cleveland Clinic researchers find music can have a soothing effect during brain surgery
If you’ve ever come home after a long day and turned on, say, Brahms to relax, or jacked up the volume on Queen’s “We Are the Champions” to get psyched for a workout, you know that music can change your mood. Research on music and the brain has shown that it can reduce stress, alleviate […]