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Music in the Brain lab: Aarhus, Denmark
One of the best things about life as an academic is that you get to meet lots of lovely people from all over the world who are interested in the same types of ‘big questions’, in my case that relate to music and the mind. This week I was kindly invited to visit the Music in the Brain lab in Aarhus, Denmark to give a talk about my work with earworms. And I had a wonderul time! Firstly, I should say that I am under quite strict instructions not to tell everybody how lovely Aarhus is – otherwise everyone might go there! I have been there 4 times now and…
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Music medicine during hospital care
This week the UK press covered a report that looked at the effect of music during surgery. You can read about the coverage on the BBC here and listen to an interview with the author of the report here on BBC Radio 4’s Today program. The report was authored and carried out by Apul Parikh, cosmetic surgeon at John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford. As far as I can tell, this is not a published paper but rather a report into series of medical trials on 100 patients where half had surgery in the standard operating environment under local anaesthetic and half had the same experience except that they heard music in…
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