音乐不仅能影响人的感情和思想,而且还会对人的心理和生理产生实质性影响。在古代,医生们已懂得利用音乐来调节心跳,让病人安眠。在西方,从文艺复兴时代开始,音乐即被用以治疗“忧郁症”。到了本世纪五十年代,牙医开始利用音乐掩盖牙钻发出的那种令人毛骨悚然的咝咝声,以分散病人对疼痛的注意力。以后,音乐在医学上的用途日趋广泛。目前,美国已有 Music can not only affect people’s feelings and thoughts, but also have a substantive impact on people’s psychology and physiology. In ancient times, doctors had learned to use the music to regulate the heartbeat and let the patient sleep well. In the West, music has been used to treat “depression” since the Renaissance. By the 1950s, dentists began to use music to mask the creepy murmurs of dental drills to distract the patient’s attention from pain. In the future, the use of music in medicine is becoming more widespread. At present, the United States already has