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...long as humans have pounded drums and plucked strings, listening to music has affected people's sense of well-being, lifting their spirits and - as new research shows - calming their nerves. Literally. According to a study at Cleveland Clinic, music can slow the neuronal firings deep within the brain during surgery designed to treat Parkinson's patients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Using Music to Ease Patient Stress During Surgery | 10/13/2009 | See Source »

...people getting root canals merited a musical intervention, he thought, why not people undergoing brain surgery? Patients with conditions such as epilepsy, brain tumors, severe depression, and obsessive-compulsive and motor disorders like Parkinson's have to be awake for surgical procedures that often take several hours. Janigro and his team decided to use that wakeful period to determine whether music made the subjects' experience in the operating room less stressful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Using Music to Ease Patient Stress During Surgery | 10/13/2009 | See Source »

When she died of brain cancer on Sept. 24 at 61, Susan Atkins was in a women's prison in California, serving a life sentence for eight of the most horrific murders in the annals of American crime. Atkins, a Los Angeles native, was 15 when her mother died; soon afterward, she left home to become a topless dancer in San Francisco. In the hippie mecca of Haight-Ashbury she met cult leader Charles Manson, who seduced her and his other young followers into believing that he was the second coming of Christ--and that the way to bring about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Susan Atkins | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...brain surgeon. You have to be a professional. I did my best and I didn't kill anybody. I can't remember what the point of my answer...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese | Title: Peggy Noonan's Mind, Exposed Again | 10/11/2009 | See Source »

...brain surgeon. You have to be a professional. I did my best and I didn't kill anybody. I can't remember what the point of my answer...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese | Title: Peggy Noonan's Mind, Exposed Again | 10/10/2009 | See Source »

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