In an easy to follow research study on neuroplasticity (brain growth), researchers and neuroscientists study the impacts of training patients with brain trauma on the piano for 3 hrs a week in a 2 month study with amazing results.
8 minute video In this PBS installation, Jeffrey Brown visits the Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, Maryland in order to see the progress of this intersection of science and the arts.
Repeated, uncontrolled seizures at a young age can cause detrimental affects to the brain and a child’s day-to-day life. What’s the last-resort solution in this case? A hemispherectomy, the removal of half of the brain Read more…
Listen to this 4:30 clip on BBC of a toddler being able to name composers and compositions from only a few notes. Being exposed to even a little music as a child can help with Read more…