The Type Of Music That Boosts Brain Function (M)
This type of music probably stimulates the prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain critical for executive functions.
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The Musical Sign That You Have High Empathy (M)
Music is much more than just entertainment: it is a way for people to connect with each other.
The Creative Therapy That Helps Reduce Depression
Higher self-esteem from a common creative therapy that also helps reduce depression.
Higher self-esteem from a common creative therapy that also helps reduce depression.
Music therapy can reduce depression in young people with behaviour problems, research finds.
Music therapy also increased self-esteem compared to those who received the usual treatment without the therapy.
The conclusions come from the largest every study of its kind.
It involved 251 children, only half of whom were given music therapy.
The music therapy itself included things like the therapist asking children to describe how they felt by playing a tune.
All the children in the study were being treated for behavioural, emotional or developmental problems.
The results showed that those who received the music therapy had higher self-esteem and reduced depression in comparison to those that had care as usual.
Professor Sam Porter, who led the study, said:
“This study is hugely significant in terms of determining effective treatments for children and young people with behavioural problems and mental health needs.
The findings contained in our report should be considered by healthcare providers and commissioners when making decisions about the sort of care for young people that they wish to support.”
Ciara Reilly, Chief Executive of Every Day Harmony, a music therapy charity, said:
“Music therapy has often been used with children and young people with particular mental health needs, but this is the first time its effectiveness has been shown by a definitive randomised controlled trail in a clinical setting.
The findings are dramatic and underscore the need for music therapy to be made available as a mainstream treatment option.
For a long time we have relied on anecdotal evidence and small-scale research findings about how well music therapy works.
Now we have robust clinical evidence to show its beneficial effects.”
The study was published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, (Porter et al., 2016).
The Type of Music That Makes You Feel Most Powerful (M)
If you want to get pumped up before a big event, what type of music should you choose?
The Musical Sign Of High IQ
This is a sign of higher nonverbal IQ.
This is a sign of higher nonverbal IQ.
People with musical talent have a higher IQ, research finds.
Being good at recognising a tune and having rhythm is linked to higher nonverbal intelligence, psychologists have discovered.
It doesn’t matter whether or not people have had musical training — musical aptitude is still linked to higher IQ.
People with an aptitude for music are more likely to study it and improve their skills even further, which further enhances their IQ
The conclusions come from a study of 133 people, around half of whom had had musical training.
Many studies have already linked musical skill to higher IQ, the authors write:
“Musically trained children and adults score higher on intelligence tests than their untrained counterparts.
Moreover, as duration of training increases,
so does intelligence.”
However, this study wanted to see what comes first.
All were given tests of both melody and rhythm.
The melody test involved listening to short tunes and judging whether they were the same or different.
The rhythm test was something similar, except with beats rather than notes.
The results showed that people with more musical ability had higher intelligence, even when musical training was taken into account.
So,the link between being musical and a higher IQ is down to both an aptitude for music and training.
At its root, the link between music and IQ is partly genetic, the authors write:
“…both music aptitude and intelligence have significant genetic components that overlap to an extent.
The specific genotypic structures of general intelligence and music aptitude are not well understood, but it is clear that intelligence is substantially heritable, and that the impact of genetic factors increases from childhood (heritability ≈50%) to adulthood (≈80%)”
The study was published in the journal Intelligence (Swaminathan et al., 2017).
How The Music You Love Reveals Your Personality (M)
The researchers were surprised about the type of music that neurotic people like.
What Your Musical Taste Says About How You Think (M)
The songs that reveal whether you have an empathic or systematising thinking style.
The Motivational Music That Fights Mental Barrier To Exercise (M)
After listening to a self-selected motivational playlist, runners who were mentally tired displayed the same performance as those who were mentally fresh.
Why Mozart Has A Powerful Anti-Epileptic Effect (M)
Listening to Mozart reduces epileptic seizures by between 31 and 66 percent, even after just one sitting.
5 Ways Music Activates The Social Brain (M)
Music promotes empathy and communication, lowers stress and helps release feel-good neurotransmitters.
