Andie Hardin, 16, a teen ambassador for the Tourette Association of America, tunes up her violin in orchestra class at Allderdice High School on Feb. 27, 2019, in her neighborhood of Squirrel Hill.

Author Don Campbell didn’t invent the concept of the Mozart Effect, but he did popularize it in his so-named 1997 treatise, which was based on the theory that listening to music — that of Mozart, in ...

You may have heard the claim that listening to classical music makes you smarter. But is this just a myth, or does classical music really have an effect on the brain? Music, as they say, nourishes the ...

Every now and again, it’s worth looking back at old unsupported ideas that we thought were dead and buried because, like zombies, they sometimes climb out of their graves and stagger into the future.

“If music be the food of love, play on.” —William Shakespeare. Music is a salve for the psyche. Music therapy to soothe the soul is likely as old as music itself. Aristotle said that music represents ...

A story on Foxnews.com shed some new light on the so-called "Mozart Effect," a belief that playing classical music while pregnant will make your unborn baby smarter. No scientific evidence supports ...