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Play Music: Brain Plasticity

Play Music: Brain Plasticity

In the first part of this series, we discussed how listening to music can help to boost brain function.  In the second, we delved deeper, analyzing how learning to play music can actually serve as a workout for your brain. So far, we’ve been speaking strictly about...

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Play Music: It’s the Gym for Your Brain

Play Music: It’s the Gym for Your Brain

Technically speaking, your brain is not a muscle.  Rather, it’s an organ.  But that doesn’t mean that the brain you’re born with is the brain you’re stuck with.  Like going to the gym to improve your cardiovascular function or “get swole,” as the kids say, there are...

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Music Improves Brain Health and Brain Function

Music Improves Brain Health and Brain Function

Music[k] has Charms to sooth a savage Breast, To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak. I've read, that things inanimate have mov'd, And, as with living Souls, have been inform'd, By Magic[k] Numbers and persuasive Sound. -The Mourning Bride, William Congreve, 1697. The...

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