Friday, 1 September 2017

Patient Plays Saxophone While Surgeons Remove Brain Tumor

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!
[SFW] [science & technology] [+4 Interesting]
[by Bob Denver@3:57amGMT]

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SnappyNipples said[1] @ 6:21am GMT on 1st Sep
lilmookieesquire said @ 4:41am GMT on 2nd Sep
NPR had a really good blurb on this

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