| You may have heard or read that listening to the | | | | The purpose of this writing is not to prove whether |
| music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart increases brain | | | | or not listening to Mozart's music does improve |
| activity and performance. | | | | concentration. |
| More... | | | | For me, I find it helps me to not to only improve |
| I have always found this quite amusing since Mozart | | | | concentration, but to soothe and keep me in a good |
| was known to be ADHD. | | | | mood. |
| Personally, I do strongly believe in the use of classical | | | | In an earlier music poll I did on my ADHD blog a few |
| music when I am working, either at home or at the | | | | months ago, I found that there were just as many |
| office. That is not to say that I do enjoy and listen | | | | votes for classical music as there was for other |
| to a lot of different type of music (just not your | | | | music types selected (assuming that many of the |
| lifeless, generic music that radio consultants say you | | | | visitors were ADD or ADHD?). About 50 persons |
| are supposed to enjoy or not hear anymore). | | | | participated. |
| There really has to be something to this theory. | | | | I can't count the endless number of times that I |
| In the late 1980's, Neurobiologist Gordon Shaw and a | | | | have heard people talk about classical music being |
| student at the University of California-Irvine found a | | | | listened to by the "intellectuals" and the "privileged." |
| way to transform the output of brain firing patterns | | | | There may be a lot of merit to both. |
| into simulated sounds which had a interestingly similar | | | | Listening to Mozart and classical music can be |
| sound to baroque music. | | | | intellectually stimulating. At least to me it is. As far as |
| There have been studies to show how listening to | | | | having to be "privileged" to listen it to, unless you |
| Mozart's music (especially his k.448) can reduce the | | | | have the resources to invest in internet streaming, or |
| number of seizures in people with epilepsy. Other | | | | high definition radio receivers, finding classical music on |
| studies also showed how listening to certain Mozart | | | | the conventional radio is getting harder and harder to |
| music was beneficial to Alzheimer's patients. And, that | | | | find. |
| Music Therapy is a well accepted, non-medicinal | | | | Oops! I just got a little distracted and off-topic . . . |
| treatment for a number of brain disorders and states | | | | and I did not have the radio on. |
| of distress. | | | | |