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The Cleveland Orchestra and Cleveland Clinic put on an international symposium in Salzburg, Austria.
Friday, August 15, 2008

We've been hearing for years that if our children grew up listening to Mozart they'd be smarter and do better in school. There's some truth to that according to researchers at Cleveland Clinic. But it's not the most important thing they're finding out about how our brains are affected by music. And the brain scientists are getting help in their research from the Cleveland Orchestra.

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