Jim Smith
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!!!FINALLY!!!
As I've worked with waaay over a thousand clients, I've kept this observation to myself for many years, but didn't doubt it as much as I wondered how it could be. Was I simply lucky as I met these particular folks?
The thing I noticed was that they were generally brighter - seemingly more alive - on top of various topics - than most of the people I met in other groups.
This morning, I came across this article in Newsmax magazine. I've edited it to make it shorter:
Music Improves Brain Function
Studies over the past decade have shown that music programs can improve memory and overall brain function...
As a result, the National Institutes of Health has developed a (musical) toolkit to help researchers study and design programs that can be widely used to improve brain health.
Earlier this year, a Swiss study found that learning to play an instrument, or actively listening to music - trying to identify various instruments - improved mental function and increases gray matter in the brains of Seniors. And in Finland, a study of stroke survivors found that a singing program helped them recover the ability to speak.
A coincidence that the music loving/listening folks that I've met seemed to be a bit sharper in general? Nope, they actually are... :congrats:
As I've worked with waaay over a thousand clients, I've kept this observation to myself for many years, but didn't doubt it as much as I wondered how it could be. Was I simply lucky as I met these particular folks?
The thing I noticed was that they were generally brighter - seemingly more alive - on top of various topics - than most of the people I met in other groups.
This morning, I came across this article in Newsmax magazine. I've edited it to make it shorter:
Music Improves Brain Function
Studies over the past decade have shown that music programs can improve memory and overall brain function...
As a result, the National Institutes of Health has developed a (musical) toolkit to help researchers study and design programs that can be widely used to improve brain health.
Earlier this year, a Swiss study found that learning to play an instrument, or actively listening to music - trying to identify various instruments - improved mental function and increases gray matter in the brains of Seniors. And in Finland, a study of stroke survivors found that a singing program helped them recover the ability to speak.
A coincidence that the music loving/listening folks that I've met seemed to be a bit sharper in general? Nope, they actually are... :congrats:
