Musical training can improve kids’ brains

Musical training can improve kids’ brains

FPJ BureauUpdated: Saturday, June 01, 2019, 05:25 AM IST
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New York : Musical training may help kids focus their attention, control their emotions and diminish their anxiety, factors that affect their psychological health, shows a study, says IANS.

Termed as the largest investigation of the association between playing a musical instrument and brain development, the findings bolster the hypothesis of the researchers that a violin might help a child battle psychological disorders even better than a bottle of pills.

“We treat things that result from negative things, but we never try to use positive things as treatment,” said James Hudziak, professor of psychiatry at University of Vermont College of Medicine in the US.

For the study, the researchers analysed the brain scans of 232 children aged six to 18. The authors found evidence that music playing altered the motor areas of the brain, because the activity requires control and coordination of movement.

They also observed changes in the behaviour-regulating areas of the brain of kids who played music.

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