This study comes out of Alzahra University, in Tehran, where a group of researchers, noting that music therapy has already been shown to reduce pain, improve sleep quality, and improve mood in cancer patients underoing therapy and multiple sclerosis patients, wondered if music might alleviate depression as well. It does. They took 56 depressed subjects, had them listen to Beethoven's 3d and 5th piano sonatas for 15 minutes twice a week in a clean, otherwise quiet room -- and saw their depression scores on the standard Beck Depression Scale go up signficantly. No side effects! And music is cheap -- a lifetime of Beethoven for the price of a couple weeks of Prozac.
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Originally posted by Fidelio View PostAny info on why they decided to play these piano sonatas?
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Originally posted by PDG View PostNo, Michael, it's the first of the 3 works, Op.10. But it's still in C minor (and not the most "uplifting" of Beethoven works). Play them some Schubert - that'll sort 'em out!
Damn! Another preposition!
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