Listening to music, the best remedy after an operation?
Cranking up your favorite playlist can speed up recovery after surgery. THE ESSENTIAL After listening to music, surgical patients reported ...
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How Music Can Help Dementia Patients
Reduction of anxiety, brain regeneration... Music proves to be an effective therapeutic tool for people suffering from dementia, researchers confirm. ...
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Brain aging better understood thanks to Bach’s music
Danish researchers have succeeded in highlighting the mechanisms that allow the brain to compensate for its aging thanks to the ...
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Classical music improves your mood by synchronizing brain waves
Bach, Mozart, Beethoven… By synchronizing the “extended amygdala”, Western classical music generates antidepressant effects. THE ESSENTIAL Chinese researchers have demonstrated ...
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Memory: Our ability to recognize music does not diminish with age
An experiment with an orchestra shows that octogenarians can identify and remember familiar melodies as well as teenagers. THE ESSENTIAL ...
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How can music help Alzheimer’s patients?
Listening to music or singing could help Alzheimer's patients, Mayo Clinic researchers say. THE ESSENTIAL "Musical memories are often preserved ...
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Playing an instrument slows down the development of the teenage brain… and that’s a good thing!
The brains of children who play a musical instrument develop more slowly, and therefore for longer, with a larger window ...
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Music: it affects our body differently depending on our expectations
Music that surprises us is felt at the heart level, while music that meets our expectations brings feelings of calm ...
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Here’s Why You Like Listening to Music That Makes You Sad
The negative emotions you feel while listening to songs can bring you pleasure. THE ESSENTIAL In the study, 82% of ...
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Listening to live music during a concert moves us more
Listening to songs during a musical performance stimulates the affective brain more strongly and emotionally draws listeners in. THE ESSENTIAL ...
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Electronic music alters our state of consciousness
By listening to electronic music, neurons in the brain tune into its rhythm, which changes reaction time. THE ESSENTIAL In ...
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Music, a soft drug?
The desire for music always increases after listening to songs and is linked to "earworms" and personality. THE ESSENTIAL In ...
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Cardiac arrest: how Taylor Swift songs can save lives
Australian cardiologists believe that the singer's hits could help keep the right rhythm during cardiopulmonary resuscitation. THE ESSENTIAL In the ...
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Tinnitus: patients like music less
People who hear ringing, buzzing or crackling sounds in one or both ears are less attentive and find the music ...
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Playing a musical instrument is good for the brains of older people!
Playing the piano, guitar or singing regularly is associated with better brain health in old age. THE ESSENTIAL Playing a ...
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Tinnitus, hearing fatigue, attention problems… Is music dangerous?
For several years we have been able to listen to music at a high sound level for a very long ...
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Stuttering: what if music was therapy?
In this sound week organized by UNESCO, the theme of music remains at the heart of the debates, in particular ...
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Does music have an impact on our brain?
UNESCO Sound Week began on January 15, 2024, for a 21st edition. The opportunity to raise the question of the ...
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Why emotions sparked by music create such powerful memories
The dynamics of emotions influenced by music transform neutral experiences into memorable events. THE ESSENTIAL Dynamic emotional states shape the ...
Read moreBabies have much more musical ears than we imagine
Rhythm perception is a distinct cognitive mechanism that is already active at birth. THE ESSENTIAL In infants, the ability to ...
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Music can help us cope with pain
Listening to a song that you love makes it easier to tolerate pain by reducing the perception of it. A ...
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Classical music synchronizes music lovers’ heart and respiratory rates
During a classical music concert, movements and certain physical responses can be coordinated among spectators. THE ESSENTIAL Movements, heart rate, ...
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These little everyday pleasures boost your brain
Different daily activities, such as drinking coffee or listening to music, would stimulate and improve our cognitive functions. THE ESSENTIAL ...
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Blood test in a baby: make him listen to Mozart!
During a blood test, playing Mozart music would reduce babies' pain. THE ESSENTIAL Playing Mozart lullabies before, during and after ...
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Why Deaf Music Lovers Prefer Different Sounds
People with impaired hearing are more sensitive to loud voices and sparse musical remixes than adults with normal sound perception. ...
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Diabetes: music to better release insulin?
Swiss researchers have developed cells capable of releasing insulin when certain music is played. THE ESSENTIAL Researchers had the idea ...
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Coffee, music: these little pleasures boost cognitive functions
Listening to music or drinking coffee can make the brain work more efficiently, a study has found. THE ESSENTIAL Certain ...
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Music: our preferences depend on the weather
Environmental factors, such as weather conditions and seasonal trends, can play a significant role in the choices of artists listened ...
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Can music cause orgasms?
© Shutterstock / Alliance ImagesDuring a concert by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in late April, a woman attending the ...
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Getting into music, the solution to be stronger in maths?
Children do better in math when music is an integral part of their lessons. THE ESSENTIAL About 73% of children ...
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