katlaughing: I heard years ago that cows in Vermont produced more milk when Mozart was piped in the barn. More recently heard about some research being done showing that kids (people kids,not goats)doing homework and/or taking tests scored better while listening to Mozart... I guess we've known forever that music soothes and calms and lowers blood pressure. What I'm just now being able to articulate based on what I've seen up close and personal is that beyond "soothing", some specific kinds of music seems to be able to override brain malfunctioning and find a new path to send messages to the body,like in Bill\Sables story. If we knew more about HOW, people could get off the "zombie" medications and receive doses of specific music instead. I sometimes think medications cause worse side effects than the initial diagnoses.