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Chronotype and performance in musicians

The fluctuation of fine motor skills in pianists is studied according to their chronotype (late or early-chronotype). (...)
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Eating disorders in musicians

The musician's lifestyles and professional constraints result in changes in eating habits. (...)
Hyperlaxity and flute practice

Hand and wrist pains are common complaints among flutists. The asymmetrical position of flute playing predisposes these musicians to musculoskeletal disorders. (...)
Musician Musa Manzani plays guitar during brain tumour surgery

This surgical method in musicians allows them to test the instrumental practice during the operation in order to identify the brain areas that allow them to play their instrument and to spare these areas. (...)
Expert musicians have a superior fluid intelligence compared to novice musicians and non-musicians

Music learning, acquired and trained musical skills are very valuable for many other activities because they have a very positive influence on fluid intelligence. (...)
Nerve compression on the lip of a trumpet player

A 20-year-old trumpeter consults for bilateral numbness in the upper lip, with difficulty playing the trumpet. (...)
Psychopathological disorders and artistic creativity

Many artists, painters, actors, singers, writers, high-level musicians with psychopathological disorders, Vincent Van Gogh, Robert Schumann, Mozart, Beethoven, Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Anne Sexton, Ernest Hemingway. (...)