Friday, 1 September 2017
quote [ Music is not only a major part of Dan Fabbio’s life, as a music teacher it is his livelihood. So when doctors discovered a tumor located in the part of his brain responsible for music function, he began a long journey that involved a team of physicians, scientists, and a music professor and culminated with him awake and playing a saxophone as surgeons operated on his brain. ]
Wilder Penfield started with touching parts of the brain and triggering memories. Now, having surgeons consult a music theorist while the patient plays open skulled is pretty mind-boggling!
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