{"id":431,"date":"2015-09-30T03:08:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T03:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healingmusicenterprises.com\/brain_blog\/?p=431"},"modified":"2015-09-30T03:08:11","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T03:08:11","slug":"more-about-how-music-affects-brain-plasticity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healingmusicenterprises.com\/brain_blog\/2015\/09\/more-about-how-music-affects-brain-plasticity\/","title":{"rendered":"More about how music affects brain plasticity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"music4surgery\" data-hashtags=\"neuroplasticity\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"https:\/\/healingmusicenterprises.com\/brain_blog\/2015\/09\/more-about-how-music-affects-brain-plasticity\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>First of all, let&#8217;s take a look at the definition of brain plasticity. \u00a0According to Wikipedia:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<b>Neuroplasticity<\/b>, also known as <b>brain plasticity<\/b>, is an <a title=\"Umbrella term\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Umbrella_term\">umbrella term<\/a> that encompasses both <a title=\"Synaptic plasticity\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Synaptic_plasticity\">synaptic plasticity<\/a> and <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Non-synaptic plasticity\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Non-synaptic_plasticity\">non-synaptic plasticity<\/a>\u2014it refers to changes in neural pathways and synapses due to changes in behavior, environment, neural processes, thinking, and emotions \u2013 as well as to changes resulting from bodily injury.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Pascual-Leone_et_al._2011_1-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neuroplasticity#cite_note-Pascual-Leone_et_al._2011-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup> The concept of neuroplasticity has replaced the formerly-held position that the brain is a physiologically static organ, and explores how \u2013 and in which ways \u2013 the brain changes in the course of a lifetime.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Pascual-Leone_et_al._2005_2-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neuroplasticity#cite_note-Pascual-Leone_et_al._2005-2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Neuroplasticity occurs on a variety of levels, ranging from cellular changes (due to learning) to large-scale changes involved in <i>cortical remapping<\/i> in response to injury. The role of neuroplasticity is widely recognized<sup class=\"noprint Inline-Template\">[<i><a title=\"Wikipedia:Manual of Style\/Words to watch\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style\/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions\"><span title=\"The material near this tag may use weasel words or too-vague attribution. (May 2015)\">by whom?<\/span><\/a><\/i>]<\/sup> in healthy development, learning, memory, and recovery from <a title=\"Brain damage\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brain_damage\">brain damage<\/a>. During most of the 20th century, neuroscientists maintained a <a title=\"Scientific consensus\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scientific_consensus\">scientific consensus<\/a> that brain structure was relatively immutable after a <a title=\"Critical period\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Critical_period\">critical period<\/a> during early childhood. This belief has been challenged by findings revealing that many aspects of the brain remain plastic even into adulthood.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Rakic_2002_3-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neuroplasticity#cite_note-Rakic_2002-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>How can music affect brain plasticity? \u00a0As you see above, neuroscientists formerly believed that the brain was static and could not change. \u00a0Now we know that that is not true! \u00a0The brain can definitely change and music can play a significant role in that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Multiple previous posts have described the unique way that music uses much of the brain, with multiple senses, modalities and parts of the brain. Any music training and practice can have wide ranging brain effects, especially playing or singing with others.&#8221; \u00a0As I&#8217;ve said here many times, live music is always better than recorded music, and when YOU are performing the music, even just singing in the shower or beating on a drum, your brain will stay younger and think better!! &#8211; See more at: http:\/\/jonlieffmd.com\/blog\/the-five-secrets-of-brain-health#sthash.itbok8Ls.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet First of all, let&#8217;s take a look at the definition of brain plasticity. \u00a0According to Wikipedia: &#8220;Neuroplasticity, also known as brain plasticity, is an umbrella term that encompasses both synaptic plasticity and non-synaptic plasticity\u2014it refers to changes in neural pathways and synapses due to changes in behavior, environment, neural processes, thinking, and emotions \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59,55],"tags":[141],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.10 - 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