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Published on in Vol 10 (2026)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/84899, first published .
Impact of Prescribed and Self-Selected Music Interventions on Stress, Sleep, Heart Rate Variability, and Brain Connectivity in Surgeons Using 7-Tesla Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Wearable Actigraphy: Multimodal Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial

Impact of Prescribed and Self-Selected Music Interventions on Stress, Sleep, Heart Rate Variability, and Brain Connectivity in Surgeons Using 7-Tesla Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Wearable Actigraphy: Multimodal Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial

Impact of Prescribed and Self-Selected Music Interventions on Stress, Sleep, Heart Rate Variability, and Brain Connectivity in Surgeons Using 7-Tesla Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Wearable Actigraphy: Multimodal Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial

Mei Rui   1 * , DMA ;   Anthony Brandt   2 * , PhD ;   Linda Moore   3 , PhD ;   Enshuo Hsu   4 , PhD ;   Christof Karmonik   5 , PhD ;   Aparajitha Verma   6 , MD ;   Miguel Valdivia y Alvarado   3 , MD ;   Jefferson Todd Frazier   7 , BM ;   Atiya Dhala   3 , MD

1 Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States

2 The Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States

3 Department of Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, United States

4 University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States

5 Department of Radiology, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, United States

6 University of Texas Health Sciences, Houston, TX, United States

7 Center for Performance Arts Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, United States

*these authors contributed equally

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