Thread: Sound Therapy - any real life experiences?

Are you talking "Mozart Effect" or something else?

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KarlB

I've never heard of the Mozart Effect but Sound Therapy involves the use of filtered classical music to cure all sorts of things.

Tinnitus, Tinnitus Treatment, Tomatis Therapy, Tinnitus Care - Sound Therapy

Hmm, they seem to be linked to the same person .

The "products" are pretty expensive (IMO) so I would prefer to find someone who has actually tried them with positive results - which I guess is what you are trying to do.


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My mother in law tried pushing it onto us and she uses it to help her to listen better. Now if we take her listening abilities as evidence of it's effectiveness then I would say definitely snake oil .

I have not seen any relevant studies to suggest that it is effective but have seen some that suggest that it alone produces little significant change certainly in the treatment of tinnitus, autism and ADHD.

But if it works for you then it is effective.

I think that the sound inside my Defender will be more effective

Yes, they are related and Alfred Tomatis was the first to describe the Mozart Effect. Wikipedia is reasonably informative on this stuff. It probably is snake oil but the key issue is "does it work for you". It matters not if it is a placebo effect. I guess an important issue is cost and I am sure the salesmen are rubbing their hands with glee. It is my understanding that the basis of the all contempory sound therapy is classical music, and Mozart sonatas in particular. The sonatas are cheap enough to buy on a CD or you could even pirate something off the net and see if you get some relief from listening, before shelling out the hard earned.

A particularly good book relating to music and brain function is Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks (see http://www.oliversacks.com/books/musicophilia/). The book is currently in print and would be easy to obtain. Sacks is a neurologist. He writes in a very easy to read style that is not too technical. He is probably most well known for his collection of essays called "The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat". Well worth looking at for a better understanding of music/brain function issues.


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KarlB

One concern is that the books I've read seem to be a few years old as they refer to the cassettes being preferable over digital music. They go into how tapes result in a more pure sound & digital loses it's effectiveness.

However, check out the current websites selling the kits & they've now gone digital .



Surely they wouldn't contradict themselves like that..........