Why Making Music is Good for You!

I was just helping my daughter with this topic for her school presentation, when my colleague Andrew Cooperstock found this great mini TedTalk:

http://trendinghot.net/what-playing-a-musical-instrument-does-to-your-brain/

Today I'm rehearsing Mozart's Sonata K.448 with my friend Larry Graham for our recital next week, and it turns out this is the piece

1) that the U of CA used to show that listening to Mozart can increase your spatial-temporal IQ by 9 points.

2)and that the US National Library of Medicine has recorded as having a 50% to 70% positive effect on lessening the # of seizures in epilepsy patients.

Who knew?