This page contains a Flash digital edition of a book.
healthbriefs
Music Harmonizes the
brain and Heals the Heart
ered that brain wave similarities within
and between the musicians’ brains
increased as they listened to the beat
of a metronome while preparing to
play. The brains’ synchronization then
continued when they began making
music.
Another U.S. study monitored
the steady pulse of a recovering heart
surgery patient as it charted the prog-
ress of his mending heart, while a quiet
Yoga Helps Breast
symphony filled the room. For nine
days, the patient soaked up the tran-
CanCer patients Feel
quil, wordless strumming of a Brazilian Better
guitarist. Music became his medicine, Women undertaking a 10-week
as his heart literally fell into rhythm program of restorative yoga classes
W
hen two guitarists play together,
with the tunes. Increasingly, doctors experienced a 50 percent reduction in
more than their instruments play
are studying and employing music as depression and a 12 percent increase
in time; their brainwaves match up,
a healing tool; in measuring the brain’s in feelings of peace and meaning
too, according to new research from
response to musical notes, they are after the yoga sessions, according to a
Germany. When the German scien-
discovering music’s harmonizing route recent study published in the journal
tists analyzed electrical activity in the
from head to heart. Psycho-Oncology.
brains of eight pairs of guitarists as
they played a short jazz-fusion melody Sources: msnbc.msn.com, BBC News, Source: PhysOrg.com
together up to 60 times, they discov- 2009
10 Northern & Central New Mexico
Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32
Produced with Yudu - www.yudu.com