The Virtual Reality (VR) Treatment Program at the Duke Faculty Practice offers a new human-computer interaction form of therapy for individuals with anxiety disorders due to fear of heights, elevators, thunderstorms, public speaking and flying.
Widely recognized as a pivotal figure in early jazz, Morton is perhaps most notable as jazz's first arranger, proving that a genre rooted in improvisation could retain its essential spirit and characteristics when notated. His composition Jelly Roll Blues was the first published jazz composition, in 1915.
Morton learned to play piano at age 10, and within a few years he was playing in the red-light district bordellos, where he earned the nickname Jelly Roll. Blending the styles of ragtime and minstrelsy with dance rhythms, he was at the forefront of a movement that would soon be known as jazz.