Why does Mozart's music have therapeutic effects?

Mozart may not be the greatest musician in the world, but his Sonata for Two Piano in D Major has become the most famous prenatal music in the world. Even in order to wake up Israeli Prime Minister Sharon who fell into a coma due to a stroke, doctors played Mozart's music in the ward. In the past 10 years, Mozart's wonderful music has not only been listened to again and again, but also been considered to have magical therapeutic effects on many diseases, from acne to Alzheimer's disease, and even the so-called "Mozart effect" has appeared-people think that listening to Mozart's music can improve people's IQ and improve human function and spatial perception. "Listening to Mozart's music can make people smarter" has become the belief of many people, but some experts doubt it. This newspaper comprehensively reports that Katia Eliade is an artist living in Paris. Recently, she was in trouble, and she felt lack of creativity, as if the whole person had lost her feelings. Even Eliad herself can't explain why she can't use blue or green in abstract paintings. Since last spring, Eliad has received unusual treatment: listening to Mozart's music for two hours every day for three weeks. Eliad wears special vibrating headphones to listen, sometimes removing some dim paragraphs. Regarding the effect of treatment, the 33-year-old said: "When I get along with myself and others, I feel calmer and feel more comfortable doing anything." Blue and green returned to Eliad's canvas. Listening to Mozart can cure ADHD. Jackie Hindley, who lives in London, also believes in Mozart's music and thinks that her 6-year-old son Lawrence has benefited a lot from it. Hindley said that Lawrence was stunted from childhood, with ADHD and language barriers: when others talked to him, Lawrence had to think for half an hour before answering. After several sessions of treatment with Mozart's music, Hindley said, "He likes talking very much now and can answer other people's questions at once. He has made remarkable progress. " The book Brain Prescription written by Daniel Amen, a famous American clinical neurologist, also mentioned that a study found that listening to Mozart's music is helpful to treat ADHD in children. Children who listen to Mozart's music (ADHD patients often have too many such brain waves) have significantly decreased their "Sita" brain waves, and at the same time become more focused, greatly improving their ability to control their emotions and their social skills. A neurosurgeon in Chicago studied this and found that Mozart's actions can reduce the incidence of epilepsy and slow down the frequency of seizures. Researchers at the University of California, Irvine also found that some Alzheimer's patients performed better in intelligence tests after listening to Mozart's music 10 minutes. Can grapes understand Mozart? Many magical effects of Mozart's music are anecdotes. It is said that the famous French actor Gerard Depardieu once said that Mozart's music helped him overcome his childhood stuttering. Some people even think that Mozart's music has a magical effect on growing grapes. Carlo Cagnaz, a vineyard owner in Tuscany, Italy, has been playing Mozart's music for his grapes for the past five years. When he was young, Kagnaz also played Mozart's works for grapes in the mature season on his accordion. He said, "Playing Mozart's music around the clock has a dramatic effect. Grapes ripen faster and parasites and birds can be driven away." Enthusiasm: The well-known "Mozart effect" This newspaper comprehensively reported the so-called "Mozart effect"-that Mozart's music can improve people's intelligence and make children smarter. The scientific basis supporting this view first appeared in the journal Nature in 1993. An article wrote that after playing the first movement of Mozart's Sonata for Two Piano in D Major for college students, their spatial reasoning ability has been greatly improved. For example, compared with listening to relaxation instructions and not listening to music, the IQ score of college students listening to music increased by 8 or 9 points. This phenomenon is the "Mozart effect" that was widely circulated later. Frans Lauscher, the lead author of the most popular prenatal music paper and an associate professor at Wisconsin State University, is also a cellist. Since then, she has done similar experiments with mice. The researchers played the same song to mice that were still in the womb, let them listen to it for two months after birth, and then put the mice in a maze. As a result, the mice who had heard Mozart's music found the exit faster than the other three groups of mice who had never heard Mozart's music. After more than ten years, Lauscher's research caused a storm in academic circles, and many scholars revised or criticized her findings. In any case, Lauscher's research has attracted extensive media attention and triggered a wave of popular psychology. Now Mozart's music has become the most popular prenatal music. The "Mozart effect" has also attracted the attention of government officials. From 65438 to 0998, the government of Georgia began to distribute classical music CDs to every newborn, and Colorado and Florida also had similar plans. Don Campbell, an American teacher who has published two best-selling books related to Mozart effect, pointed out that scientific research shows that when a person listens to music, many different parts of the brain are active, and some of the most active parts overlap with those when people make spatial reasoning. The author claims that the results have been misinterpreted. However, Lauscher recently began to revise her initial conclusion. She thinks that the benefits of listening to Mozart to the brain may only be equivalent to the general reaction when doing something enjoyable. Angry at the misinterpretation of her research results, she said, "No one has ever said that listening to Mozart's concerts makes people smarter." She explained that her research only showed that the subjects' spatial reasoning ability was temporary and limited, not a fundamental improvement in IQ. Alfred Tomatis is a Parisian doctor. He is a pioneer in using Mozart's music to treat various childhood defects and adult diseases, including depression. At present, Tomatis's therapy has been introduced all over Poland, mainly to help children overcome some learning difficulties. However, this therapy is only officially recognized in a few countries, and traditional music therapists are also skeptical. Music therapy It is said that Ouyang Xiu, a famous writer in the Northern Song Dynasty in China, suffered from depression. Later, he learned to play the piano from his friends. Over time, depression naturally recovered. Since the 1940s, people have gradually regarded music as a medical treatment. Music therapy can be divided into simple music therapy, music electrotherapy and music electroacupuncture. Simple music therapy is simply to treat diseases by listening to music. It allows patients to listen to different music according to their different diseases. Can be used for treating emotional anxiety, mental depression, neurasthenia, insomnia, gastrointestinal dysfunction, etc. Music electrotherapy is that patients receive music therapy as well as music current therapy, and the current is synchronized with music. Clinically, it is often used to treat neuralgia, neurasthenia, headache, insomnia, early hypertension, sprain and contusion. Music electroacupuncture therapy is a combination of music therapy and acupuncture therapy. In the process of music electroacupuncture treatment, patients listen to music with their ears and perform music electroacupuncture treatment at the same time. Mainly used for neuralgia, muscular atrophy and other diseases and electroacupuncture anesthesia. Mystery: The frequency of music repetition is consistent with brain waves. Why is the focus of the debate Mozart, not classical musicians like Bach, Beethoven or Chopin? Music therapists don't believe in Mozart effect. In the formal field of music therapy, Mozart effect is considered as an almost superstitious phenomenon formed by excessive hype. Registered music therapists usually let autistic children or other patients compose their own music to express themselves and communicate with others. In Britain, music therapists are officially recognized by the government 1999. Gary Ansdale, a music therapy expert, pointed out: "The focus of music therapy is active music creation, not passive listening to music." Ansdale is quite dismissive of the Mozart effect. He said: "The actual situation is much more complicated than this and cannot be simply attributed to Mozart effect." In fact, many kinds of music are considered to have therapeutic effects. However, john hughes, a neuroscientist who specializes in epilepsy at the University of Illinois, thinks Mozart has the best effect. Hughes once played Mozart's sonata for two pianos in D major, just like the one in Lauscher's experiment. He was surprised to find that 29 of the 36 patients had their symptoms relieved. Hughes also tried other classical music, but he found that only Mozart had a lasting and obvious influence on his patients. Hughes believes that the key to the problem lies in the frequency of Mozart's music repetition. Hughes said: "His music is relatively simple. He always repeats a melody many times, and it is repeated in a pattern that our brains like." It is found that Mozart's music pattern repeats every 20 to 30 seconds on average, which is consistent with the time length of brain waves and some activities of the central nervous system. This may be the mystery of the magical effect of Mozart's music.