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Prescription tunes: Can music help improve the effects of drugs?

says, and that many of those hormones are metabolized by the same pathways prescribed drugs are.

Kiang will have healthy volunteers listen to already composed classical music — and original music — that has specific elements he believes will affect metabolism differently.“We’re going to test, systematically, specific elements of music,” Kiang said. “We’re going to measure endogenous markers — these are natural substances that already exist in the body that we know represent the major metabolism pathways,” Kiang explained.If they can confirm the link between music and medicine processing, there would be wide-ranging applications, Kiang said.“I think this will be a very good proof-of-concept study. And if we can identify a positive link, there’s unlimited potential in areas that we can expand into,” he said.

“If we can find out how music affects drug action, I think this is going to change the paradigm of how medications are prescribed.“We’re not talking about stopping prescribing altogether, rather adding music to enhance the good affects of medications and to suppress the bad affects of drugs.”

 

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