A 65-year-old Parkinson's disease patient played her clarinet during her brain surgery to help surgeons asses how the treatment is working. For five years before her procedure, she was unable to play ...

For more than 200 years, Parkinson’s disease has been treated as a one‑way street, with drugs and devices that ease symptoms ...

Music met medicine when a patient played a clarinet solo as she underwent brain surgery for Parkinson's disease and proved that the treatment was working in real time. Denise Bacon, 65, saw her finger ...

LONDON — The doctors prepared to carry out the brain surgery, their medical tools laid out. Their patient, wide awake on the operating table, was given an instrument of her own: her clarinet, which ...