How Music Affects Your Child’s Brain
Article from iVillage.com | January 1, 1999 Long before the lyrics to "Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star" were written, children across France sang the words you see above to the same tune. Seventeen-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart must also have been familiar with the...
Brain “Closes Eyes” to Listen to Music
From BBC News | Last Updated: Monday, 5 November 2007 Training may have changed the way a conductor's brain works Our brains can turn down our ability to see to help them listen even harder to music and complex sounds, say experts. A US study of 20 non-musicians and...
Molecular Basis for the Mozart Effect
23 April 2004 - New Scientist | by Emily Singer, San Francisco New research has revealed a molecular basis for the "Mozart effect" - the observation that a brief stint of Mozart, but not other music, may improve learning and memory. Rats that heard a Mozart sonata...
Music for Better Health
By Cathy Wong | About.com Guide | Updated June 12, 2012 Music therapy is a treatment method that involves using music to enhance health. There are many different approaches to music therapy, including creating music, listening to music, and talking about music....
Music and Pain Control
Listening to Music Can Reduce Chronic Pain and Depression From Karen Lee Richards, former About.com Guide | Updated: June 21, 2006 A study published in the June 2006 issue of the Journal of Advanced Nursing found that listening to music daily reduced chronic pain,...
The Moozart Effect
By REBECCA LEE | From ABC News | May 25, 2007 On Hans Pieter Sieber's Priegola dairy farm in Villanueva del Pardillo, Spain, the secret to success is not some newfangled technology or machine. Nor is it a time-tested technique or process handed down from generation to...