Businesses are struggling today, no doubt about it. Businesses are going bankrupt, folding, going under. Is there ANY chance at all that music, drum circles, or singing could make a difference? Really? Well, here are some of the things that music is credited with doing: Music is a powerful tool that affects our moods, behavior […]
Have you ever wondered about your brain on jazz? Jazz is said to be the only true American musical genre. Even within jazz, there are now many sub-genres. The performer is actually a neuroscientist and had the ability to have a little keyboard created. He took it into an MRI machine to show the difference […]
J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2010 Aug 11. [Epub ahead of print] Musical Intervention Reduces Patients’ Anxiety in Surgical Extraction of an Impacted Mandibular Third Molar. Kyoung Kim Y, Kim SM, Myoung H. Primary Researcher. Abstract PURPOSE: Patients undergoing impacted mandibular third molar (IMTM) extraction often have severe perioperative anxiety, which may lead to increased perceptions […]
Are you having open heart surgery? My mother had a quintuple by-pass over 15 years ago and even then, I told her about the importance of listening to soft, steady, soothing music during the surgery, to calm the body and the mind, and to facilitate healing and a faster recovery. The doctors did not know […]
Introduction ——————————————————————————– 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 […]
