Why does Mozart's music create as much excitement in the laboratory as it does in the concert hall? In 1993, researchers found that students who were played Mozart temporarily increased their spatial IQ scores. A media frenzy over what they had christened the "Mozart Effect" led to countless claims for its beneficial effects on health, behaviour and child development- everything from epilepsy to improving children's ability at maths. Mozart's own mind has been described as neurologically perfect, so does this give clues to the therapeutic properties of his music? Paul Robertson explores the evidence. Producer Paul Evans
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