Effects of Opera Music from Brain to Body: A Matter of Wellbeing

本書從多個角度探討了情感劇與醫學之間的聯繫。神經科學家研究歌劇與大腦功能之間的關係，並根據神經生理學、神經影像學、認知科學和神經音樂學等領域的新發現進行探討；臨床醫生則調查音樂的治療潛力，特別是在神經退行性疾病患者的治療和康復領域；醫學歷史學家分析歌劇中疾病及其治療者的表現；職業醫生報告影響歌劇界工作者的疾病描述，特別關注精神和心理的變化。

歌劇以其器樂和聲樂伴奏被視為最完整的戲劇表演形式。然而，對於情感劇對歌手、音樂家和聽眾的影響下大腦活動的機制知之甚少。神經影像技術的使用使我們能更好地理解在歌劇表演過程中涉及的神經機制和電路。在過去的20年中，情感劇越來越多地被用作各種神經學和神經精神病理的治療方法，如抑鬱症、認知障礙，甚至昏迷。

本書還討論了情感劇如何影響音樂專業人士以及減少或緩解職業病的干預措施，從而改善健康和提高生活滿意度。最終目標是依賴堅實的神經科學數據來改善神經疾病和職業障礙的治療干預。

本書將對神經學家、神經生物學家、精神科醫生、職業醫生以及音樂治療師產生極大的興趣。

Lorenzo Lorusso, MD is the Head of the Neurology & Stroke Unit at Merate Hospital of the Neuroscience Dept. - A.S.S.T. -Lecco, Italy. He has main interest in Neuroimmunology and Neurological rare diseases. He was past President of the International Society for the History of the Neuroscience (ISHN) and he was appointed Chairman of the History Committee for the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) organizing seminars on History of Neuroscience in the main European cities. He has taught History of Medicine for the University of Milan and he participated as a teacher for courses on the relationship between music and medicine for the University of Milano-Bicocca. He is a melomaniac. Author and co-author of several papers published on national and international journals and of chapters for different books.

Michele Augusto Riva, MD, PhD is Associate Professor of History of Medicine at the University of Milano-Bicocca and Director of the Occupational Health Unit of the Fondazione IRCCS San Gerardo dei Tintori in Monza. He conducted research in different fields of history of medicine, particularly history of neurosciences and history of occupational health. In the period 2009-2015, he was appointed as Chair of ICOH Scientific Committee on History of Prevention of Occupational and Environmental Diseases and during his mandate he co-organized several international conferences around the world on the history of Occupational Health. Author or co-author of about 250 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and book chapters, in the last decade he published different papers on the relationship between medicine and melodrama, being opera definitely one of his passions from a young age.

Vittorio Alessandro Sironi, MD is specialized in Neurosurgery. His main fields of interest are the treatment of several neurosurgical and neurological diseases and neuro-psychiatric disorders, but he is also a medicalhistorian, a medical anthropologist, a writer and essayist, author of more than 30 books and several papers published on national and international scientific journals. He is a lecturer on the relationship between music and the brain at the University of Milano-Bicocca and he is a melomaniac. He is the Scientific Director of the Research Centre on the History of Biomedical Thought of the University of Milano-Bicocca, coordinator of the Study group on the History of Neurosurgery within the Italian Society of Neurosurgery, founder and co-director of the book series Storia della Medicina e della Sanità (Laterza publisher; History of Medicine and Health Care), international collaborator of the Drug Chain Research Programme at the GEIRSO of the Université du Quebec, Montréal and Vice-President of the Association International et Interdisciplinaire sur la Chaîne du Médicaments.

洛倫佐·洛魯索（Lorenzo Lorusso），醫學博士，為義大利萊科（Lecco）梅拉特醫院神經科與中風單位的負責人。他主要關注神經免疫學和神經罕見疾病。他曾擔任國際神經科學歷史學會（ISHN）會長，並被任命為歐洲神經科學學會聯合會（FENS）歷史委員會主席，負責在主要歐洲城市組織神經科學歷史的研討會。他曾在米蘭大學教授醫學史，並參與米蘭-比科卡大學有關音樂與醫學關係的課程教學。他是一位音樂愛好者，並且是多篇發表於國內外期刊的論文及不同書籍章節的作者和合著者。

米凱萊·奧古斯托·里瓦（Michele Augusto Riva），醫學博士，哲學博士，是米蘭-比科卡大學醫學史的副教授，並擔任蒙扎聖杰拉爾多醫院（Fondazione IRCCS San Gerardo dei Tintori）職業健康單位的主任。他在醫學史的不同領域進行研究，特別是神經科學史和職業健康史。在2009年至2015年間，他被任命為國際職業健康組織（ICOH）職業與環境疾病預防歷史科學委員會的主席，並在任內共同組織了多場國際會議，探討職業健康的歷史。他是約250篇國際同行評審期刊論文和書籍章節的作者或合著者，近十年來，他發表了多篇有關醫學與音樂劇關係的論文，歌劇自小便是他的熱情之一。

維托里奧·亞歷山德羅·西羅尼（Vittorio Alessandro Sironi），醫學博士，專攻神經外科。他的主要研究領域包括多種神經外科和神經疾病的治療以及神經精神疾病，但他同時也是一位醫學歷史學家、醫學人類學家、作家和散文家，著作超過30本書籍及多篇發表於國內外科學期刊的論文。他在米蘭-比科卡大學講授音樂與大腦的關係，並且是一位音樂愛好者。他是米蘭-比科卡大學生物醫學思想歷史研究中心的科學主任，意大利神經外科學會神經外科歷史研究小組的協調人，《醫學與健康史》（Storia della Medicina e della Sanità）書系的創始人及共同編輯（Laterza出版社），並且是魁北克大學蒙特利爾分校GEIRSO的藥物鏈研究計畫的國際合作者，以及國際藥物鏈協會（Association International et Interdisciplinaire sur la Chaîne du Médicaments）的副會長。