American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for July (second issue)
...esearchers hope to study whether daily episodes of humming can reduce the risk of sinusitis in patients susce...tested 10 healthy males, ages 34 to 38, found that humming sped up the exchange of air between the sinuses and the nasal cavity and increased the nitric oxide ...New studies show factors responsible for enhanced response to music
...hen music is performed without words--such as when humming a melody or playing an instrument. Other scientists are discovering why music has the ability, as the playwright William Congreve wrote, "to soothe the savage breast." New research from the University of Montreal has demonstrated that positive emoti...Sounds of New York, evidence for a preferred ear, ultrasound for the eye
...nt study by Swedish researchers has suggested that humming may be helpful in avoiding sinusitis. Since the s... the nostrils increased 15 times during periods of humming compared to times of normal, quiet exhalation. The researchers think that humming creates oscillati...Under the surface, the brain seethes with undiscovered activity
...oom revealed that older ferrets' brains were still humming along at 80 percent as if they were processing vis...ith visual reality, the adult ferrets' brains were humming along, producing the patterns even though there was nothing to see. When watching the film, the adul...