Medical Notes: How We Can Hear Silence, Using a Blood Disease To Fight Dementia, and the Rise of Snake Bites in America
Can we hear silence? Then, can a disease protect us from dementia? And finally, extreme heat isn’t the only threat this summer.
Medical Notes: Music Is Good for Your Health, New Cancer Therapy, and Is America Ground Zero for the Next Pandemic?
Will America be ground zero for the next pandemic? Grief may be making you sick. A new experimental therapy is saving cancer patients. Music is good for the soul—and your health.
Perfect Pitch
New research shows perfect pitch is teachable to adults as well. Experts discuss the implications on all forms of learning.
Tone Deafness
Many people sing badly and think they’re tone deaf, but a surprisingly low proportion of them truly can’t tell one note from another.
Misophonia
This disorder, misophonia, is largely unknown, but researchers believe audio processing of these sounds is misrouted to rage centers in the brain. Experts and a sufferer discuss the syndrome.
