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by the_shivers 1214 days ago
Made the classic blunder of commenting before finishing reading the study.

>A landmark paper studying the effects of listening to Mozart K.448 in individuals with epilepsy demonstrated a reduction in interictal epileptiform discharges (IEDs), that were not observed during listening to a control old time Pop Piano tune.

Mozart wasn't chosen arbitrarily.

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A "Pop Piano tune" could be a low-effort stock musical asset. It would have been more useful to compare using other well thought out musical pieces.