Music

Music has been shown to have theraputic effects on people, especially classical music.  An interesting set of stats that I recently came across:

Absolute Pitch (identifying a note w/out hearing a reference tone):

• 1 in 10,000 - "normal people" have this talent
• 1 in 10 - professional musicians gifted with this talent
• 1 in 2 - people born blind that have this gift

Alzheimer's patients can see memory recall improve through classical music stimulation.  Apparantly, the structure of the music engages part of our brain that forms pathways critical to thinking processes and accessing memory (synapsis?  neurons?  Oh yeah, you knew you learned these words for a reason!)