BACKGROUND Increasing numbers of reports show the beneficial effects of listening to Mozart music in decreasing epileptiform discharges as well as seizure frequency in epileptic children. There has been no effective method to reduce seizure recurrence after the first unprovoked seizure until now. In this study, we investigated the effect of listening to Mozart K.448 in reducing the seizure recu...

OBJECTIVE The rate of weight gain in preterm infants who are exposed to music seems to improve. A potential mechanism could be increased metabolic efficiency; therefore, we conducted this study to test the hypothesis that music by Mozart reduces resting energy expenditure (REE) in growing healthy preterm infants. DESIGN. A prospective, randomized clinical trial with crossover was conducted in 2...

Rauscher, Shaw, and Ky recently reported that exposure to brief periods of music by Mozart produced a temporary performance increase in tasks taken from the StanfordBinet IQ measure. The present study examined whether this effect occurred on performance in a backwards digit span task. Thirty-six undergraduates were exposed to 10-min periods of Mozart music, a recording of rain, or silence in a ...

BACKGROUND The effect of different musical styles on serum cortisol levels, blood pressure, and heart rate is currently unknown. METHODS 60 subjects were randomly assigned to three groups that listened to various compositions by W. A. Mozart, J. Strauss Jr., or ABBA for 25 minutes. Their serum cortisol concentrations, heart rate, and blood pressure were measured before and after the listening...

T he 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth is upon us. As if his musical genius, exhibited even as a child, needed any additional lustre, the past decade has seen claims that exposure to his music is associated not only with aesthetic pleasure but with better mathematics skills, enhanced brain development in utero, improved learning among college students, and improved spatial-temporal reasoning ...

The Mozart Programming System is a development platform designed for distributed programming sym bolic computation and constraint based inferenc ing This article gives a survey of the abilities of Mozart for open concurrent resource aware dis tributed computing We show by example how easy it is to develop applications with these properties This makes Mozart particularly well suited for build in...

Attempted to verify and extend the findings of F. H. Rauscher, G. L. Shaw, and K. N. Ky, who found a significant improvement on a spatial-temporal reasoning task after exposure to a selection by W. A. Mozart. The current study investigated whether the findings of Rauscher et al. could be replicated using a different dependent measure, reflected in both accuracy scores and overall reaction times...