Single neurons can adjust to barely noticeable frequency shifts at a level that exceeds almost all other mammals.

Music with a four-four tempo, which corresponds closely to a normal heart rate, can help regulate heart rate, circulation, and breathing.

Lyrical melodies and rhythms of about sixty to eighty beats a minute, which is common to much classical music and bird song, can stimulate relaxation and alpha brain waves, a type of pattern associated with wakeful relaxation.

The implementation of the right kind of music could help patients recover from a variety of procedures. Other scientists have even studied the effect of music on our sympathetic nervous system, metabolism, and even immune system.





Perhaps someday doctors may prescribe a soundtrack to our surgery specially tuned to our biorhythms, making a speedy recovery not just dependent on medicine and rest.