心脏与大脑的深层联系

Look who’s talking The deep links between your heart and brain have a profound effect on your health, finds Abigail Hodder YOU’RE lying on a hospital gurney, waiting for the anaesthesiologist to send you under so you can be taken into theatre and the operation can begin. Naturally, you’re nervous. But mixed with the quiet buzz of surgeons moving about is the soothing sound of piano, as classical music plays in the background, calming you, note by note. You won’t hear it, but the music will deliver its biggest benefits once you are unconscious – lowering your blood pressure, heart rate and respiratory rate and leading to fewer complications and dramatically less pain when you wake up. …