How Music Helps Prevent Organ Rejection

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120323001248.htm

ScienceDaily (Mar. 23, 2012) — Music has a fundamental affect on humans. It can reduce stress, enhance relaxation, provide a distraction from pain, and improve the results of clinical therapy. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery demonstrates that music can reduce rejection of heart transplants in mice by influencing the immune system.

The link between the immune system and brain function is not clearly understood, nevertheless music is used clinically to reduce anxiety after heart attack, or to reduce pain and nausea during bone marrow transplantation.

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They found that opera and classical music both increased the time before the transplanted organs failed, but single frequency monotones and new age music did not.

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