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Ananova: Does Mozart help newborn babies? Doctors are to run trials to see if playing classical music to newborn babies helps them recover from the trauma of birth. Doctors are to run trial to see if playing classical music to newborn babies helps them recover from the trauma of birth. The decision follows a pioneering project at Kosice-saca hospital in eastern Slovakia The decision follows a pioneering project at Kosice-saca hospital in eastern Slovakia where Mozart and other classical music is piped to newborns via headphones in the maternity ward. Doctors there believe the music is the perfect way to...

KOSICE, Slovakia (AFP) - On their little heads, the newborns in the maternity ward are wearing stereo headphones and their tiny hands seem to move to the rhythm of the music. From the first hours of their lives, the babies are tuned into Mozart at the Kosica-Saca hospital in eastern Slovakia. This is no experiment in producing a generation of musical geniuses. The infants are listening to the classical composer to stimulate their mental and physical functions thanks to the benefits of music therapy. The birth trauma is "enormously stressful for the baby," said Slavka Viragova, the doctor in charge...