Tag: mindfulness
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Music and Brain Waves: Exploring Alpha, Beta, Theta, and Gamma Activity
Have you ever noticed that certain songs make you feel calm, while others instantly make you feel energized? Maybe listening to classical music helps you concentrate while studying, or an upbeat playlist motivates you during a workout. While it may seem like music is simply changing your mood, it is actually changing something much deeper:…
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Music and the Emotional Brain: How Music Interacts with the Amygdala
Have you ever gotten goosebumps while listening to a song? Maybe it was during a movie soundtrack, the climax of a symphony, or a song you’ve heard hundreds of times before. Your heart raced, you got chills, or you even felt emotional for reasons you couldn’t quite explain. This is a common experience known as…
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Music Training and Executive Function: What Studies Show About Focus, Memory & Attention
How can music training throughout various periods of your life help fight against cognitive decline? How does music training actually strengthen your brain and help executive function? In this study, Bottcher et al. investigate the association between playing a musical instrument across various periods of your life and the various multi-domain cognitive abilities that are…
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How Music Can Regulate Stress and the Autonomic Nervous System
In the last article, I touched on music and how it affects your emotions – quite literally in your brain. But what about the other parts of the body? How can music help to regulate stress and your Nervous System? In a systematic search done by various scientists(link here), there were many studies uncovered relating…
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What Actually Happens in your Brain when you Listen to Music? Here’s What Research Shows
Music – a universal language. Something that can fight across many modern barriers. But how does your brain actually process music? And how can that be useful in medicine? This article is fairly technical – while there is much explanation, as I process these studies, I suggest looking up the basic brain structures and what…
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Stress vs. Your Brain: Can Music Defend You? Here’s What the Research Shows
Stress in our everyday lives is a very prominent thing—perhaps more prominent than ever before. But can music help reduce the effects of stress on your brain? Effective stress recovery is important to prevent long-term consequences of stress. Listening to music could be beneficial for stress reduction. In a meta-analysis (read the study here!), 14…
