Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major has been credited with having many positive effects, including alleviating epilepsy symptoms. But a new meta-analysis out of Vienna has concluded that there ...

Chandler Branch, at his blog, explains: “A new report now suggests that the Mozart effect may be a fraud. For you hip urban professionals: No, playing Mozart for your designer baby may not improve his ...

Playing along with the Mozart effect. If you want music to sharpen your senses, boost your ability to focus and perhaps even improve your memory, you need to be a participant, not just a listener.

In 1993, three dozen college students filed into a lab in Irvine, Calif., to take part in an unusual experiment. The lead researcher, Frances Rauscher, a red-haired woman in her late 30s and a former ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - The sounds of Mozart might help slow premature infants' metabolism, potentially helping them to put on needed weight, according to an Israeli study. Most research into the ...

Over the past fifty years, there have been remarkable claims about the effects of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's music. Reports about alleged symptom-alleviating effects of listening to Mozart’s Sonata ...

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Andie Hardin, 16, a teen ambassador for the Tourette Association of America, tunes up her violin in orchestra class at Allderdice High School on Feb. 27, 2019, in her neighborhood of Squirrel Hill.

It’s become common knowledge that listening to classical and possibly other forms of music can lead to the “Mozart Effect.” Research over the past few decades has documented many positive effects, 1,2 ...

Author Don Campbell didn’t invent the concept of the Mozart Effect, but he did popularize it in his so-named 1997 treatise, which was based on the theory that listening to music — that of Mozart, in ...

“Music is the medicine of the mind.” That is what American soldier and politician John A. Logan (1826–1886) once said. I kind of agree with it. Being a classically trained mezzosoprano, I know from ...