A premature baby listening to the music of child genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The research by Israeli doctors suggests 30 minutes of Mozart a day helps put on the pounds which if you are a premature baby is what you need to do. Doctor Ronit Lubetzky said listening to Mozart relaxes the infants, when they use less energy, they gain weight faster.
“Now we have, you know, as a real number, showing that he spends less energy, he’ll listen to music few times a day and he can gain weight faster. And then he’s gonna be discharged earlier, less exposed to complicated hospitalization which is a serious issue in premature infants.”
Look far cyber, the neonatal units taken the theory a step further without research. According to the team here, the benefits of live music are all given.
“Even if we were not know exactly what the mechanism, we can see very obviously that when you play them, when they hear the music, they become more relax, they sleep much better. The mother is much happier, and that is very important to stress."
The next step will be to test whether it's exclusively the music of the child prodigy that has a such therapeutic effect on the premature.
Stuart McDill, Reuters.
