Music creates faster dopamine response than meditation. The brain’s reward system responds to music with remarkable speed and intensity. When you hear a particularly moving musical passage or ...

You may have heard the claim that listening to classical music makes you smarter. But is this just a myth, or does classical ...

Learning to play a musical instrument can change your brain, with a U.S. review finding music training can lead to improved speech and foreign language skills.

Richter’s love of music only grew as she got older, and she studied voice and piano. Diagnosed with dyslexia, she also found that music helped her cope with her learning disability. It helped her gain ...

As it turns out, tunes may be better for some than others. Research published in 2017 suggested that music is more beneficial to people with higher working memory capacity. Other wor k has also ...

Music can help calm anxiety and ease pain 06:43. But what's missing is rigorous science to better understand how either listening to or creating music might improve health in a range of other ways ...

The effects of music on mental performance are complicated. It would be fantastic if there were a music app that could boost your attention span by 400%, but that app probably does not exist.

According to a study in The Lancet Psychiatry, half of the global population may develop mental health disorders. Activities such as painting, learning instruments, writing, and language acquisition ...

Why does music give us chills, motivate us to work out and make us feel connected to one another? Neuroscientist and opera singer Indre Viskontas explains the power of music and its effects on our ...

SPENCER MICHELS: Music is now being used to help patients with a wide variety of illnesses not just brain trauma. That's the case with 16-year-old Michael Hendricks Jr. of Pinole, California, who ...

Neurologic music therapy has been shown to help retrain the brain to walk, improving the gait of those with multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s, stroke and cerebral palsy.

Stroke survivors who can’t speak sometimes can sing, and music therapy can help them retrain brain pathways to communicate. Similarly, Parkinson’s patients sometimes walk better to the right beat.