From Brian Horton
The study in which mice given heart transplants survived for longer when forced to listen to Verdi’s La Traviata or a selection of Mozart than when listening to Enya or a monotone could just be down to variety (31 March, p 16).
Most of Enya’s songs are somewhat repetitive and even different songs have a very similar style, so maybe the mice died of boredom. I would hate to discount the potential benefits of classical music, but it should be compared with a much wider variety of music before we get too excited.
West Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
