The Mozart effect for babies

From the moment Paulo bought me the Mozart Effect for Babies Collection I was hooked. I immediately went online to research it and was captivated. The girls listen to it every evening before bedtime. Eva and Bianca both love it. Eva calls it her ballet music. The Mozart effect first came to light in a 1993 when Fran Rauscher, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin, showed that college students who listened to Mozart's Sonata for 10 minutes performed better on a spatial reasoning test than students who listened to new age music or nothing at all. Scientists argued over whether the phenomenon had a relatively simple explanation, such as just improving a person's mood, or if the effect was tied to a unique quality of Mozart's compositions. One study reported that the particular rhythmic qualities of Mozart's music mimic some rhythmic cycles occurring in human brains. Rauscher team at Stanford University in California, think they have found the molecular basis of the Mozart effect. Their study used rats, which, like humans, perform better on learning and memory tests after listening to the sonata.The researchers found that these smarter rats had increases in neural growth, a learning and memory compound, and synapsin I, a synaptic growth protein, as compared to control rats who had listened to equivalent amounts of white noise. So does the Mozart Effect exist? Well, some say the Mozart Effect is life-changing music and is medicine for the body, the mind, and the soul and many disagree. You decide, I defiantly would suggest a closer look.

If nothing else the music certainly leaves you jubilant and exhilarated, and that is always a good, NO great thing!