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Music and Medicine
Seems music therapy is getting more attention these days. I wonder if Sacks’ latest book, Musicophilia, has anything to do with the press.
SciAm recently reported that depressed patients feel happier after listening to Beethoven.
Similarly, the NYT published a recent article about Claudius Conrad, an MD PhD surgeon at Harvard who’s investigating the biochemical nature of the Mozart-induced....
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Gamma Knife
The Gamma Knife® was invented in 1968 by a Swedish Neurosurgeon, Professor Lars Leksell. It is a radiosurgery tool used to treat tumors and other abnormalities in the brain, without opening the skull. The radiation is used to destroy abnormal tissue while preserving the surrounding healthy tissue. In Gamma Knife® radiosurgery, specialized equipment focuses as many as 200 tiny beams of radiation...
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