*Professor of Medicine, T.N. Medical College (Retd.), Hon. Physician, Bhatia Hospital, Mumbai; **Consultant Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Andheri (West), Mumbai D Schweitzer was a French-German scholar, born in Kaysersberg, Alsace; a s ickly chi ld , in contrast to h is la ter extraordinary robustness. Without doubt, he was a great and multiface...

introduction: cochlear implantation (ci) improves language skills among children with hearing loss. however, children with cis still fall short of fulfilling some other needs, including musical perception. this is often attributed to the biological, technological, and acoustic limitations of cis. emotions play a key role in the understanding and enjoyment of music. the present study aimed to in...

the main purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of different combinations of music and rhythmic movements on behavioral problems of children with mild mental retardation. a total of 40 children with mild mental retardation were randomly divided into 4 variations of practice including: rhythmic movement with major scale music, rhythmic movement with minor scale music, rhythmi...

introduction: it has shown that listening to mozart music can potentiate spatial tasks in human and reduce seizure attacks in epileptic patients. a few studies have reported the effects of prenatal plus postpartum exposure of mice to the mozart music on brain-drived neurotrophic factor (bdnf) in the hippocampus. here we investigated the effect of postpartum exposure to the mozart music on bdnf ...

Background: Performance related musculoskeletal and associated health issues are prominent amongst musicians. The aim of this study was to explore self-reported musculoskeletal and related health issues in undergraduate music students. A further goal was to ascertain how these problems impact students’ learning and playing their instruments. Materials and Methods: A longitudinal mixed me...

This research studies the relationship between socio-economic status and music consumption among the youth. The socio-economic indexes include prestige, power and property from Max Weber's Theory. This survey covers a researcher-made questionnaire along with 200 young ones between 15-35 years of age living in Tehran (areas: Elahieh, Jourdan, Apadana, Enghlab, Kianshahr, Ra-ahan). Nine hypothese...

Objective Most of the experts in marketing consider the market (store) environment as an effective factor to attract customers which is used as a strategy to create a pleasant purchasing experience for the customers and influence the consumers’ behavior. Nowadays, hypermarkets pay more attention to the custormers’ comfort while purchasing and try to use a variety of strategies, nice background ...