Ananova:

Doctors are to run trials to see if playing classical music to newborn babies helps them recover from the trauma of birth.

The decision follows a pioneering project at Kosice-saca hospital in eastern Slovakia where Mozart and other classical music is piped to newborns via headphones in the maternity ward.

Doctors there believe the music is the perfect way to keep newborn babies healthy and relaxed after the traumatic experience of being born.

And now experts at Weill Medical College at New York's Cornell University will run a study to medically prove whether the music of Mozart affects levels of stress, heart rate, and motor activity in premature babies.