Thirteen unresponsive ICU patients changed a tone using thought alone
In a Columbia study of 41 brain-injured patients who could not move or speak, a third shifted a beep’s pitch through bedside EEG, and…
A humpback’s song is shaped by the dive that carries it
Suction-cup tags on 16 singing males off Maui mapped whole songs onto whole dives for the first time, and some singers kept going for…
How your ear turns air pressure into perception
From eardrum to a coiled piano keyboard inside the skull, with 15,000 hair cells that do not grow back, and a 2026 finding that…
UC Irvine hosts a two-day music and medicine conference October 28
HARMONICS 2026 brings MedRhythms CEO Brian Harris and flutist Emi Ferguson to the UCI Student Center, with 14 CMTE and 9 CME credits for…
Bill Fontana made Grace Cathedral listen to San Francisco
For nearly 13 weeks this summer, sensors on the carillon and microphones inside silent organ pipes turned the building into an instrument played by…
The 40 Hz Alzheimer’s bet gets its verdict before year end
Cognito Therapeutics’ 670-patient HOPE trial of a flickering, humming headset reads out by December, and every efficacy number so far comes from 76 people.
FNIH launches a Music as Medicine neuroscience initiative with Renée Fleming
The Foundation for the NIH announced the program on July 2 with soprano Renée Fleming, drummer Mickey Hart and Jim Weiss; the stated aim…
How to try a sound bath without buying the hype
Singing bowls and gongs have moved into offices and cathedrals; the studies behind them are small and single-session, and worth knowing before you lie…
Brain recordings decode imagined melodies, roughly one note in four
In 10 epilepsy patients with electrodes on the cortex, a Seoul National University team predicted the contour of silently imagined children’s songs at 26%…
Binaural beats, the evidence on one page
A February 2026 review found 10 small trials in people aged 19 to 24, and a 308-person company RCT found the beats worked only…
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