Alix Kirsta asks...

Could I be turning into a junkie? At bedtime every night, I look forward to my nightly “fix”. Lights off, eyes shut, stereo headphones in place, the strains of Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky, Bach and other composers lull me to sleep.

Most nights I’m out long before the 30-minute sleep CD has finished. Unlike sleeping pills or alcohol, there are no ill effects, and no wearing off of the therapeutic powers of this particular drug. On the contrary, the more you use music, the better it works.

As the science behind “music medicine” begins to emerge, what was once dismissed as one of the weirder elements of fringe therapy is now entering the mainstream. In some US hospitals, classical music is played in the operating theatre to help patients relax and soothe preoperative nerves. American research also suggests that playing music to patients after major surgery helps.

For more information, visit: www.brainmusic.net and click here to listen a short segment of brain music

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