A Physician Cellist Prescribes Music: Melanie Ambler on Creating Musical Rounds

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Prescribing Music: Why Melodies Work When Medicine Fails. Dr. Melanie Ambler is a physician and cellist who founded "Musical Rounds," a program dedicated to integrating music into patient care. In this episode, Melanie reveals her journey into playing cello on hospital rounds during her medical student rotations at Stanford School of Medicine. We explore the science into how music accesses the brain's "backdoor" to treat neurodegenerative diseases and discuss the preliminary findings of her Musical Rounds research study. Wish to help the show? Click 👍🏻 on YouTube Leave ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ on Apple. Subscribe here and send it to a friend.

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