The Mozart Effect in Patients Suffering from Tinnitus

[Danny Boy]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23025336

Abstract
CONCLUSION:
The study suggests that Mozart therapy could be a valid alternative to the common sound therapy methods in tinnitus patients.

OBJECTIVES:
The aim of the study was to evaluate the presence of the Mozart effect as indexed by a variation in tinnitus intensity and tolerability.

METHOD:
Sixty-two individuals aged between 22 and 78 years, reporting tinnitus for at least 1 year, were enrolled for the study. All patients attended a 1 h cognitive behavioral counseling session and listened to Mozart's sonata k448 for 1 h per day for a month. Afterwards patients listened to Beethoven's Für Elise sonata for 1 h per day for a month. To evaluate the general stress level, the impact of tinnitus on patients' quality of life, and the intensity of tinnitus, patients were invited to participate in three tests: the Measure du Stress Psychologique (MSP) questionnaire, the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI), and a 0 to 10 visual analog scale (VAS).

RESULTS:
For all the parameters investigated, MSP, THI, and intensity, there was a general significant improvement between the pre- and post-listening evaluation. A significant improvement, as regards THI and intensity, could already be appreciated after a single exposure to Mozart's sonata.


Has anyone tried this? Might have the biggest potential for notching too!

 

[Sound Wave]

Wait, what... this is interesting and frustrating, because it doesn't say what is in these specific musics that would reduce T.

P.S. I am now listening to k448 via Spotify. Not bad...

 

[Sound Wave]

Hmm, the same seems to help also with epilepsy. Now I am intrigued more. Pinging one of our sound wizards @Steve

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6882/14/17

 

[sandra72]

But what kind of music from mozart en must it be played at some frequancy?

 

[David Tholfsen]

Lovely piece. The study must have been made by a Mozart lover
High end of the piano is still a bit searing for me.
Brahms, Schumann and Beethoven all had serious T. Maybe from all that tickling of the ivory? I doubt that Mozart lived long enough to nurture his T properly.

 

[Markku]

Does anyone here have access to the full text found here?

http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/00016489.2012.684398

 

[Steve]

It's interesting.

I wonder if the results were as much that the listener had a forced period of relaxation. We really don't know how to relax these days, so grabbing a time where we have to focus on a beautiful piece of music can be very therapeutic.

I wonder if we could strip down to the basic elements of the piece and reconstruct it as a sort of music therapy?

 

[J-rod]

Ate a sandwich, then I feel asleep meditated while at work listening to k448..

 

[J-rod]

Does anyone here have access to the full text found here?

http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/00016489.2012.684398

Is this the same one right here?
http://www.publicpriorart.org/xml/20/1/1/2317/40170/20.1.1.2317.40170.xml

 

[SoulStation]

It's interesting.

I wonder if the results were as much that the listener had a forced period of relaxation. We really don't know how to relax these days, so grabbing a time where we have to focus on a beautiful piece of music can be very therapeutic.

I wonder if we could strip down to the basic elements of the piece and reconstruct it as a sort of music therapy?

I'm sure there is a piano reduction that's not too insane to play floating out there somewhere.

 

[RaZaH]

I have noticed that doing something/anything about your T will subjectively "lower" it or to be more accurate , make it more bearable. Maybe the folks taking part in this were just feeling the effects of that "placebo" ?

 

[SteveToHeal]

Wait, what... this is interesting and frustrating, because it doesn't say what is in these specific musics that would reduce T.

P.S. I am now listening to k448 via Spotify. Not bad...

IS this the one: ?

 

[EatMoTacos]

Thought this was VERY interesting!!!

I googled Mozart and Tinnitus and I saw this article:
http://www.streetarticles.com/alternative/the-music-of-mozart-can-help-to-get-rid-of-tinnitus

Then from just listening the first five minutes of Mozart Sonata k448, it sounds like ACRN....

Someone please tell me I am not going crazy, I even notched it at 4k.

 

[Danny Boy]

Thought this was VERY interesting!!!

I googled Mozart and Tinnitus and I saw this article:
http://www.streetarticles.com/alternative/the-music-of-mozart-can-help-to-get-rid-of-tinnitus

Then from just listening the first five minutes of Mozart Sonata k448, it sounds like ACRN....

Someone please tell me I am not going crazy, I even notched it at 4k.

Well, it's worth trying for one hour a month.

 

[dan]

if listening to mozart gives significant relief, you have mild tinnitus, trust me....lol

 

[Danny Boy]

if listening to mozart gives significant relief, you have mild tinnitus, trust me....lol

It's always worth trying. I haven't done it yet...May try it haha.

 

[carlover]

I would say the above is the starting point and.......

http://www.soundtherapyperth.com/products/programs/level1.php

Takes it far further........didnt work for me sadly,but its classical music including a lot of Mozart distorted.

 

[Beste]

Too bad that Beethoven was the one who suffered from Tinnitus but Mozart is the one who is eating the cake in somewhere up above.

 

[JRW]

Pianos are actually a percussion instrument...a hammer hits a string. Thus, the notes have low sustain...that is, when a note on a piano is played it is very close to simply a short tone. Mozart Sonata K448 is a sonata duet...so there are two pianos. (I don't think there is anything special about K448 other than it generates a continuous stream of tones.)

For a Mozart piano duets, there is almost a continuous stream of tones at different frequencies. Lots and lots of tones.

So:

I bought Mozart for 2 Piano Duets...2 CDs of Piano sonatas. It cost a whopping $6.00, used from Amazon. I try to listen to it an hour a day...when I'm driving to work, on a plane or when I'm working on the computer at home. (You can get a free program to convert the CDs to MP3s, so you can take them anywere.)

This has helped me. It has *not* cured my tinnitus. It reduces the "tonal" part of my tinnitus, but it does not help the "static".

As an added benefit: After about an hour, I understood why he is one of the greatest composers in history. The music is incredible.

 

[Danny Boy]

Pianos are actually a percussion instrument...a hammer hits a string. Thus, the notes have low sustain...that is, when a note on a piano is played it is very close to simply a short tone. Mozart Sonata K448 is a sonata duet...so there are two pianos. (I don't think there is anything special about K448 other than it generates a continuous stream of tones.)

For a Mozart piano duets, there is almost a continuous stream of tones at different frequencies. Lots and lots of tones.

So:

I bought Mozart for 2 Piano Duets...2 CDs of Piano sonatas. It cost a whopping $6.00, used from Amazon. I try to listen to it an hour a day...when I'm driving to work, on a plane or when I'm working on the computer at home. (You can get a free program to convert the CDs to MP3s, so you can take them anywere.)

This has helped me. It has *not* cured my tinnitus. It reduces the "tonal" part of my tinnitus, but it does not help the "static".

As an added benefit: After about an hour, I understood why he is one of the greatest composers in history. The music is incredible.

I'm glad it's helped you! It's a lovely piece of music. I also <3 moonlight sonata.

 

[Juan]

Thought this was VERY interesting!!!

I googled Mozart and Tinnitus and I saw this article:
http://www.streetarticles.com/alternative/the-music-of-mozart-can-help-to-get-rid-of-tinnitus

Then from just listening the first five minutes of Mozart Sonata k448, it sounds like ACRN....

Someone please tell me I am not going crazy, I even notched it at 4k.

What the article is saying, if I understood it right, is that... you have to lower or somehow remove the high-frequencies in the music of Mozart?

On that link the article said:

"We can come to a conclusion, that to patients with high-frequency tinnitus to listen to the music of Mozart is contra-indicated. Nevertheless, exactly the music of Mozart can be the most suitable music for use as a so called notched music.

We can make the assumption that if you remove from the music of Mozart frequency of a internal sound of patient, it will be much more effective than "any music" as proposed by U.S. researchers at the California Institute of Berkeley, as it contains much more tonal transitions in the range of high frequencies."