New research: music training delays brain decay
mainA study at Northwestern University indicates that older people with a music background suffer less from age-related neural damage. The study was specifically aimed at hearing loss, but may apply to other faculties. Read on here.
I’m not sure Beethoven would agree…
87 people involved? Umm…While I’ve no personal doubt that a training in music is beneficial, I think further testing, on larger numbers, is called for!
“They support the idea that the brain can be trained to overcome, in part, some age-related hearing loss.”
As a former pro musicain, in my experience, it can be true.
I played the flute/picolofor 10 years in a pro orchestra, and at 55 years, in my family ( 3 are less than 20 years)I have or the best ability to identify noises or the best audition capability. In addition, I have a permanet noise in my ears (terramicina collateral damage) and in audiometric exams I was always capable of identifying the beatings of the frequency that matched my ear noise. As a result the exams result ok from the clinical point of view.
I’ve been in music all my life. I forgot what I was going to say now….