A fetus is born with the ability to form and preserve many more of these optimized brain connections, however, if not stimulated by the age of 3 years old; these connections eventually begin to phase out and become very difficult to access again from that point going forward. On the other hand, whatever connections that have been stimulated can be strengthened and further refined within its particular area over time.

The key here is accessibility – to ensure the connections are made and available to the baby for use whether it's now or later in life. In other words, during the phase after birth when new connections can still be stimulated, a baby's brain acts like a filing cabinet. New connections that have been stimulated become individual files placed in that cabinet. Even if those files are not filled with a mass amount of information now, the fact remains that the files are accessible when needed and ready to retain and refine new information related to that particular file.

Subsequent classical music studies demonstrated:

Reduced seizure activity in nearly half of epilepsy patients during open brain surgery when either classical music or orchestrated folk music was played to them (reported by the Department of Neurobiology, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany) Reference.

Considerable improvement by a twin with Alzheimer's disease who listened to a section of Mozart's piano sonata. The AD twin significantly improved on the spatial-temporal task when compared with pretest scores, and no enhancement of scores was demonstrated following the other control conditions of 1930s popular tunes and silence (University of California, Physics Department) Reference.

Sustained reduced seizure activity in an eight year old girl with childhood epilepsy (Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome) who was played the Mozart Sonata every ten minutes for each hour while awake. At the end of the period, the number of clinical seizures had fallen from nine during the initial four hours to only one during the last four hours. The following day, the number of attacks was just two in seven and half hours demonstrating music can exert a longterm effect (reported by the University of Illinois Medical Center, Department of Neurology) Reference.

In an electroencephalography (an EEG is a graphical record measuring the brain's electrical activity) study of listening to the Mozart Sonata compared to listening to text, the music induced the presence of activity in the right frontal and left temporo-parietal areas of the brain (reported by the Ursinus College, Department of Psychology) Reference.

Rats were exposed in utero plus 60 days post-partum to one of the following: complex music (Mozart Sonata k. 448), minimalist music (a Philip Glass composition), white noise or silence, and were then tested for five days, three trials per day, in a multiple T-maze. By Day 3, the rats exposed to the Mozart music completed the maze more rapidly and with fewer errors than the rats in the other groups. The difference increased in magnitude through Day 5. This suggests that repeated exposure to complex music induces improved spatial-temporal learning in rats (reported by the University of Wisconsin Psychology Department) Reference.

• Supplement diets with Omega-3s (ALA, DHA, EPA). The FDA recommends that daily consumption not exceed more than a total of 3 grams per day, with no more than 2 grams per day from a dietary supplement (Reference).
• From the seventh month of pregnancy, frequently listen to complex classical music (without other continuous sounds like from a television) such as while driving, cooking dinner, reading, etc. It is not suggested that headphones or speakers be placed directly on or next to a pregnant woman's stomach.