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 ...

Music is great, and babies love when you sing to them. But does that mean your baby will grow up smarter or hit their milestones faster if you play Mozart for them as they’re growing up? Not really.

In a now well-known 1993 paper in Nature called "Music and spatial task performance", Frances H. Rauscher and her colleagues report that participants who were exposed to the first movement "allegro ...

Music by Mozart has been shown to have an antiepileptic effect on the brain and could potentially represent a treatment to prevent epileptic seizures, according to researchers headed by a team at the ...