Everyday neauroscientists are learning more about the brain and how music affects the brain. One thing we’ve known for awhile is that it enters the brain through the 8th cranial nerve. But how does knowledge improve your surgical experience?
Author Archive | Dr. Alice Cash
Surgery Headphone orders coming in!
Headphones orders are coming in I am so excited because people are ordering both the headphones and the downloads of the surgery music I’ve worked so long to choose and program. Soon I’m hoping to have at least 4 different genres of music to choose from but right now it’s classical music. But, keep in […]
Surgery Headphones now ready for YOU!
For almost 20 years I have been reading about, thinking about and finally creating headphones for patients to wear during surgery. The research is there: through the process of rhythmic entrainment, patients who are listening to steady, rhythmic music through headphones, stay relaxed and as a result, require less anesthesia, less anxiety meds before and […]
Music and Coma
We’ve all known someone in a coma. The question is always “can they really hear me or hear music playing?” My answer, based on hundreds of anecdotal accounts is a resounding “yes!”
Can Mozart Help a Pregnant Woman?
Dr. Cash has been working with pregnant women, using music, for over 30 years. Her “Lullaby CD” has met with critical acclaim around the world! She is also an authority on Mozart and earned her Ph.D. in musicology.