Listening to music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has in the past been associated with better math skills, smarter fetuses and higher college test scores. Now it has been linked to a patient's ability to provide more accurate results in a test for glaucoma, according to this BBC story.
The automated perimetry test checks the peripheral vision of patients with glaucoma or neurological conditions.
Brazilian researchers let 30 patients listen to 10 minutes of Mozart's sonata for two pianos, while another 30 prepared in silence.
The research, in the British Journal of Ophthalmology, found the music improved performance in the tests.
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