Music During Surgery

We all love music but just how powerful is it? I recently read an article about a music teacher who had music as a major part of his life. When he found that he had a tumor located in the part of his brain that was responsible for music function, he was devastated and intent on beginning a long journey involving a team of physicians, scientists and a music professor that culminated with him awake and playing the saxophone as the surgeons operated on his brain.

His particular case is now the subject of a study published in the …read more