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The Beatles contribute to the understanding of the brain

The brain area that controls our muscles also helps us remember music. The Beatles contributed unwittingly to improve knowledge of brain functioning (...)
Dancing makes people more sensitive to others' emotions and more understanding

The dancers because of their learning to translate emotions through movement are more sensitive and experts to interpret and understand the emotions of others. (...)
Lung disease of a bagpiper due to an allergic reaction

Playing a wind instrument, bagpipes, saxophone, trumpet, clarinet, exposes to risks of pulmonary allergy caused by a fungus present in the instrument (...)
After a focal dystonia, an oboe player returns to play in orchestra - Medecine des Arts

A musician, oboe player, suffering from focal dystonia, resumes his position in the orchestra 20 years after quitting. (...)
Playing music or listening to music collectively promotes a better quality of life, health, safety

Participate in collective music events, singing, or dancing or collectively practice these artistic practices promotes better "quality of life" in terms of well-being, health, safety, relationships and performance. (...)
A conductor bitten by a shark

The conductor Justus Frantz was bitten by a shark in one of the Hong Kong berries (...)
The severed ear of Van Gogh.

A letter from Dr. Rey who treated van Gogh in 1888, recently discovered, specifies that Van Gogh's ear was cut off in its entirety and not just the ear lobe. (...)
Your preference for consonant music is not inborn but depends on your cultural environment

A new study on an isolated tribe in the Amazon, the Tsimane, highlights the characteristics of Western music based on the consonance experienced as pleasant and dissonance experienced as unpleasant, are not innate. (...)