Gasenzer Elena Romana, Kanat Ayhan, Neugebauer Edmund
Department of Medicine, University of Witten/Herdecke, Cologne, Germany.
Department of Neurosurgery, Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Rize, Turkey.
World Neurosurg. 2017 Jun;102:313-319. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2017.02.081. Epub 2017 Feb 27.
The nervous system works like a great orchestra. Specifically, the music of Mozart with its "Mozart effect" is appropriate to use in neurosurgery. We investigated the relationship between Mozart's music and neurosurgery.
We used digital catalogs like "PubMed" and the libraries of universities. Key words were "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" and "neurosurgery and music."
In the first half of the 20th century, performing neurosurgery on some musicians, such as Maurice Ravel, Josef Hassid, and George Gershwin, resulted in a fatal outcome. The cause of this is probably that neurosurgery had not been developed yet in the first half of the 20th century. In the past 3 decades, the neurosurgical operations of musicians show that musicians have rich associations among auditory, somatic, and sensorial systems.
It is clear that we have much to learn from studies about music and brain function that derive from our surgical experiences with patients. The neuronal plasticity of musicians' brains may be different from that of nonmusicians' brains. Musicians with enhanced motor skills have greater capacity for plasticity because of enriched interhemispheric connections. Listening to music and the effect of Mozart in neurosurgical practice, intensive care, or rehabilitation were documented in many studies. As authors, we mean something different: Its effectiveness should be studied. We concluded that in current neurosurgical practice, Mozart has an effect. More research and clinical studies are needed.
神经系统的运作就像一个伟大的管弦乐队。具体而言，莫扎特的音乐及其“莫扎特效应”适用于神经外科手术。我们研究了莫扎特音乐与神经外科手术之间的关系。
我们使用了诸如“PubMed”之类的数字目录以及大学图书馆。关键词为“沃尔夫冈·阿玛多伊斯·莫扎特”以及“神经外科与音乐”。
在20世纪上半叶，对一些音乐家，如莫里斯·拉威尔、约瑟夫·哈西德和乔治·格什温进行神经外科手术，导致了致命的结果。其原因可能是20世纪上半叶神经外科手术尚未发展起来。在过去30年里，对音乐家进行的神经外科手术表明，音乐家在听觉、躯体和感觉系统之间有着丰富的联系。
显然，我们可以从基于对患者的手术经验而开展的有关音乐与脑功能的研究中学到很多东西。音乐家大脑的神经元可塑性可能与非音乐家的大脑不同。由于丰富的半球间连接，运动技能增强的音乐家具有更大的可塑性。许多研究记录了在神经外科手术实践、重症监护或康复过程中聆听音乐以及莫扎特音乐的效果。作为作者，我们的意思有所不同：其有效性应该得到研究。我们得出结论，在当前的神经外科手术实践中，莫扎特音乐有效果。需要更多的研究和临床研究。
