Is Rhythm in Our Genes...Or Our Chest? @MedlifeCrisis
Is Rhythm in Our Genes...Or Our Chest?  @MedlifeCrisis
Uploaded June 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Is groove really in the heart?? We live our whole lives with a metronome in our chests...to which doctors seem to love to listen. But what are they listening for?

*The Art of Medicine, Chapter 2: Sounds*

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Big thanks to @12tone and @AdamNeely for their help.

There's a bunch of really fascinating stuff related to rhythm that I didn't go into. I put a note in the vid about irregular heart rhythms which didn't fit with this theme, but going ever further afield and you encounter Parkinson's patients who struggle to initiate movement, but are able to dance to a rhythmic beat. Or people with severe stutters able to speak by adopting a more rhythmic flow. Humans are rhythmic beings, for whatever reason.

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References:

12tone's video about poetic meter (Shakespeare, speech, really great) - youtube.com/watch?v=JMxzLOSlhbs

Adam Neely’s video about intrinsic rhythm - youtube.com/watch?v=qIfD7ZN5FYI

Where I heard about the 1910 fake heart sounds paper mobile.twitter.com/ptfaddenMD/status/1268523181972881411

Linking prenatal experience to the emerging musical mind - frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnsys.2013.00048/full

Embodied Mind, Situated Cognition, and Expressive Microtiming in African-American Music - https://cnmat.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/2002_Embodied-mind-situated-cognition-and-expressive-micro-timing-in-african-american-music.pdf

Embodied music cognition - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_music_cognition

A history of cardiac auscultation and some of its contributors - sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002914902024657
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