A newly published study by Northwestern University researchers suggests that Mom was right when she insisted that you continue music lessons — even after it was clear that a professional music career was not in your future. The study, which will appear in the April issue of Nature Neuroscience, is the first to provide concrete […]
Entries Tagged as 'Music and the Brain'
Proven Link Between Early Music Lessons and a Well-Tuned Brain
September 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Music and the Brain
Do you know how music affects YOUR brain?
July 9th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Music and the Brain
Of all my blog topics that I write about, the topic of music and the brain seems to generate the most response and the most comments and questions. I can see why too! Everybody loves music although taste in music varies radically from pop, rock and jazz to symphonies, chamber music and opera. Then there […]
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Music Therapy and Parkinson’s Disease
June 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Music and the Brain
Music acts as a specific stimulus to obtain motor and emotional responses by combining movement and stimulation of different sensory pathways. Click the link above to learn more. Thus says Gina Shaw, a health and medical writer for Web MD. This is an excerpt of a research study conducted in Italy: BACKGROUND: Modern management of […]
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Music and the Brain
March 31st, 2008 · No Comments · Music and the Brain, Music Healing
Neuroscientists are only just beginning to understand how music affects the brain. We know that music is extremely powerful and that it can elicit hundreds of shades of emotion very quickly. In this blog I will explore the latest findings on the brain and music as well as present some musings of these findings and […]
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