by Nancy Andrews I am starting this blog as one of the expressions of my contribution to the Artist in Context project “Prospectus for the Nation” http://www.artistsincontext.org/index.php/prospectus/about.html My goal is that Continue reading
by Robin Owings Over 5 million U.S. Adults enter an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) each year. Roughly half of these patients later experience Post-ICU Syndrome, defined as long-term cognitive and/or Continue reading
This is evidence of what often happens to folks who have been on ventilators in the ICU. Note: PTSD can be treated, and the sooner the better! http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/ptsd_symptoms_common_among_icu_survivors
Nice article from Sally Abrahms (also in the AARP Bulletin March 2013). http://www.sallyabrahms.com/health-and-medicine/sally-abrahms-how-music-therapy-helps-people-heal
Here is hope for PTSD to be better diagnosed and more frequently recognized and treated http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/07/us/study-seeks-biomarkers-for-ptsd-and-traumatic-brain-injuries.html?emc=tnt&tntemail1=y&_r=0
This link to a NYT article was sent to me by Darron Collins. One thing that struck me in the article is the account of sounds that the rat mothers Continue reading
Familiar music could help people with brain damage – health – 29 August 2012 – New Scientist.
a recent article in Seed Magazine by Jonah Lehrer that supports the idea of science and art working together: http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/the_future_of_science_is_art/
The Respirator. by Gregory Whitehead “The title track takes an actual quotation from a magazine article about traumatic brain injury, which I then re-voiced and subjected to multigenerational entropy and Continue reading
As medical care gets better and better at helping people survive that would have died in the recent past, more and more people experience the limbo of between life and Continue reading
I just listened to an inspiring talk by Claudius Conrad, Director of Music in Medicine of the Department of Surgery and the Benson Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine. He Continue reading
