Another Freaky Music-and-Brain Surgery Video

June 4, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

YouTube has a number of these videos. Doctors have to go into some poor guy’s skull to do some repairs. But because they can’t just poke around blindly, the patient has to be awake so the surgeons can assess the effects of touching this spot vs. that spot has. A millimeter the wrong way and the patient could lose some sort of vital function.

Take this guy. The only way his doctors could know they weren’t hitting the wrong parts of his brain was to have him play and sing Beatles songs while his brain was being probed. (Via Garnet)

Alan Cross

is an internationally known broadcaster, interviewer, writer, consultant, blogger and speaker. In his 40+ years in the music business, Alan has interviewed the biggest names in rock, from David Bowie and U2 to Pearl Jam and the Foo Fighters. He’s also known as a musicologist and documentarian through programs like The Ongoing History of New Music.

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