UB music and medicine NEWS
Violinist Still Making Music After DBS Surgery
You may remember the story, a few years ago, about the professional musician who played the violin during his brain surgery? That journey began at Mayo Clinic when a surgical team implanted electrodes in his brain to stop a tremor that could have ended his career. Today, more than five years after his deep brain stimulation surgery, Roger Frisch continues to be one of the world's foremost violinists.
You may remember the story, a few years ago, about the professional musician who played the violin during his brain surgery? That journey began at Mayo Clinic when a surgical team implanted electrodes in his brain to stop a tremor that could have ended his career. Today, more than five years after his deep brain stimulation surgery, Roger Frisch continues to be one of the world's foremost violinists.
DNA, Like You’ve Never Heard It
Rie Takahashi, a young scientist from Los Angeles, has discovered an unexpected new tool that can help anyone, anywhere, begin to understand the hidden secrets of human genetics — the iPod.
“In my junior year at the University of California, Los Angeles, I took a seminar that Professor Jeffrey H. Miller was teaching called Science and Society,” said Takahashi, who has also studied classical piano for more than two decades. She said that one of the tasks he assigned that year, which was 2005, was “to break down the jargon that we often have in science and find ways to make it approachable to anyone.” Given Takahashi’s passions for music and science, she and Miller decided that her studies should pursue the nexus of those interests. “There are no language barriers when it comes to music,” she said.....
Rie Takahashi, a young scientist from Los Angeles, has discovered an unexpected new tool that can help anyone, anywhere, begin to understand the hidden secrets of human genetics — the iPod.
“In my junior year at the University of California, Los Angeles, I took a seminar that Professor Jeffrey H. Miller was teaching called Science and Society,” said Takahashi, who has also studied classical piano for more than two decades. She said that one of the tasks he assigned that year, which was 2005, was “to break down the jargon that we often have in science and find ways to make it approachable to anyone.” Given Takahashi’s passions for music and science, she and Miller decided that her studies should pursue the nexus of those interests. “There are no language barriers when it comes to music,” she said.....
2014 International Conference of International Association for Music and Medicine held nearby in Toronto!
June 24th-June 27th, 2014
University of Toronto
June 24th-June 27th, 2014
University of Toronto
Songs in the Key of Life - Using Music to Teach Psychiatry
UB Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Sergio Hernandez's unique musical approach to psychiatry.
UB Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Sergio Hernandez's unique musical approach to psychiatry.
Medical Acoustics, UB Reaching COPD Patients with New Lung Flute
September 6th, 2011
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- An easy-to-use device developed by a local biomedical company is providing relief to Buffalo-area patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema.
Learn more about Medical Acoustics' Lung Flute here.
September 6th, 2011
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- An easy-to-use device developed by a local biomedical company is providing relief to Buffalo-area patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema.
Learn more about Medical Acoustics' Lung Flute here.