Music Pharmacology

Soundcheck | May 3, 2010
If new research is any indication, music someday may be widely used in operating rooms to help ease patient anxiety during surgery. A recent study at Cleveland Clinic found that music can slow the neuronal firings deep within the brain during surgery designed to treat Parkinson's patients. Our guests include Dr. Kamal Chemali, a neurologist at the Cleveland Clinic as well as a pianist; and Vera Brandes, director of an Austrian research program at Paracelsus Medical Private University Salzburg.

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