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A Musician Who Performs With a Scalpel

                   
the-dispatch.com
May 20, 2008
        
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MUSIC MAN Dr. Claudius Conrad has studied how the mechanisms of Mozart’s music seemed to ease the pain of some patients. This jump in growth hormone, said Dr. John Morley, an endocrinologist at St. Louis University Medical Center who was not involved with the study, “is not what you’d expect, and... [read full story]                    

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Music in the ICU

 medgadget.com May 22, 2008
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Harvard Pianist-Surgeon Studies Music for Patients & Docs

 wsj.com May 20, 2008
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Music in the ICU

medgadget.com
May 22, 2008
        

Thanks to the WSJ Health Blog, we discovered Dr. Claudius Conrad, a surgical resident at Harvard, who is studying the effect that music has on patients in intensive care. Here's a video of Dr. Conrad talking about his research: More at WSJ Health Blog...

                   

A musician who performs with a scalpel

iht.com
May 21, 2008
        

For Claudius Conrad, a 30-year-old surgeon who has played the piano seriously since he was 5, music and medicine are entwined — from the academic realm down to the level of the fine-fingered dexterity required at the piano bench and the operating table. "If I don't play for a couple of days,"...

Mozart and Medicine [The Frontal Cortex]

scienceblogs.com
May 21, 2008
        

There are lots of ways to combine science and art. Some of them are more problematic than others: One of the strangest exhibits at the opening of "Design and the Elastic Mind," the very strange show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York that explores the territory where design meets science,...

Harvard Pianist-Surgeon Studies Music for Patients & Docs

wsj.com
May 20, 2008
        

An accomplished pianist who is also a third-year surgical resident at Harvard is trying to figure out how music helps both patients and surgeons, the New York Times reports. Lots of pieces of the puzzle are already out there — it’s been shown that music can alleviate pain for patients, and...