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By Jill Suttle | January 20, 2015 hough it's s Published by Greater Good -- Berkeley separate out the effects of music versus other factors, if Music may aid memory My now-teenage son always listens to music while attp:/greatergood.berkeley.eduartick item five_ways_m the positive impacts of simple social contact, at least on recent study found that music had a unique contribution S studies, Far from being a distraction to him, he claims it can make you healthier make in reducing anxiety and stress in a children's hose helps him remember better when it comes to test time. above and beyond social contributions. research may prove him right-and provide an insight New studies are suggesting that music can be more could help people suffering from dementia. powerful than medication Music decreases pain Music enjoyment elicits dopamine release, and When I gave birth to my first-born, I listened to CD Music has a unique ability to help with pain dopamine release has been tied to motivation, which in of classical music in the hospital. I figured that music management, as I found in my own experience with EN is implicated in learning and memory. In a study publish would help calm me and distract me from the pain. birth. In a 2013 study, sixty people diagnosed with last year, adult students studying Hungarian were asked You might use music to distract yourself from painful or fibromyalgia-a disease characterized by severe speak, or speak in a rhythmic fashion, or sing phrases i stressful situations, too. Or perhaps you've listened to musculoskeletal pain-were randomly assigned to listen unfamiliar language. Afterwards, when asked to recall music while studying or working out, hoping to up your music once a day over a four-week period. In comparist foreign phrases, the singing group fared significantly be performance. Though you may sense that music helps ye to a control group, the group that listened to music than the other two groups in recall accuracy feel better somehow, only recently has science begun to experienced significant pain reduction and fewer depres symptoms. Evidence that music helps with memory has led figure out why that is. researchers to study the impact of music on special In another recent study, patients undergoing spine populations, such as those who suffer memory loss due Neuroscientists have discovered that listening to HI surgery were instructed to listen to self-selected music ( illness. In a 208 experiment, stroke patients who were heightens positive emotion through the reward centers of the evening before their surgery and until the second da going through rehab were randomly assigned to listen d our brain, stimulating hits of dopamine that can make us after their surgery. When measured on pain levels post either to self-selected music, to an audio book, or to feel good, or even clated. Listening to music also lights \\ surgery, the group had significantly less pain than a con nothing (in addition to receiving their usual care). The other areas of the brain-in fact, almost no brain center i group who didn't listen to music. patients were then tested on mood, quality of life, and left untouched-suggesting more widespread effects and It's not clear why music may reduce pain, though music several cognitive measures at one week, three months, potential uses for music. impact on dopamine release may play a role. Of course. 6 months post-stroke. Results showed that those in the stress and pain are also closely linked: so music's impar music group improved significantly more on verbal Music's neurological reach, and its historic role in stress reduction may also partly explain the effects. memory and focused attention than those in the other healing and cultural rituals, has led researchers to consid groups, and they were less depressed and confused than ways music may improve our health and wellbeing. In However, it's unlikely that music's impact is due to controls at each measuring point. particular, researchers have looked for applications in simple placebo effect. In a 2014 randomized coninol tris health care-for example, helping patients during post- involving healthy subjects exposed to painful stimuli. In a more recent study caregivers and patients with surgery recovery or improving outcomes for people with researchers failed to find a link between expectation and dementia were randomly given 10 weeks of singing Alzheimer's. In some cases, music's positive impacts on music's effects on pain. The researchers concluded that coaching. 10 weeks of music listening coaching, or neit health have been more powerful than medication. music is a robust analgesic whose properties are not due Afterwards, testing showed that singing and music lister improved mood, orientation, and memory and, to a lesse simply to expectation factors. Here are five ways that music seems to impact our extent, attention and executive functioning, as well as providing other he These have health and wellbeing Music may improve immune functioning Music helps us exercise Music reduces stress and anxiety Can listening to music actually help prevent discas How many of us listen to rock and roll or other upt Some researchers think so. Wilkes University researche music while working out? It turns out that research looked at how music affects levels of IgA-an importan supports what we instinctively feel: music helps us get antibody for our immune system's first line of defense more bang for our exercise buck. against disease. Undergraduate students had their saliva IgA levels measured before and after 30 minutes of exposure to one of four conditions-listening to a tone click, a radio broadcast, a tape of soothing music, or My choice to bring music into the birthing room silence. Those students exposed to the soothing music h probably a good one. Research has shown that listening significantly greater increases in IgA than any of the oth music at least music with a slow tempo and low pitch, conditions, suggesting that exposure to music (and not Researchers in the United Kingdom recruited thirty without lyrics or loud instrumentation-can calm poop. other sounds) might improve innate immunity. participants to listen to motivational synchronized non-motivational synchronized music, or no music while down, even during highly stressful or painful events. they walked on a treadmill until they reached exhas Music can prevent anxiety-induced increases in he Another study from Massachusetts General Hospitalevels. Measurements showed that both rate and systolic blood pressure, and decrease cortisol found that listening to Mozart's piano sonatas helped rel increased the length of time participants worked out levels-all biological markers of stress, In one study. critically ill patients by lowering stress hormone levels, (though motivational music increased it significantly mo researchers found that patients receiving surgery for her the music also decreased blood levels of interleukin-6-when compared to controls. The participants who listens repair who listened to music after surgery experienced protein that has been implicated in higher mortality rate to motivational music also said they felt better during the decreased plasma cortisol levels and required significan diabetes, and heart problems. work out than those in the other two conditions. less morphine to manage their pain. In another study. involving surgery patients, the stress reducing effects of According to a 2013 meta-analysis, authors Mona | In another study. oxygen consumption levels were music were more powerful than the effect of an orally- measured while people listened to different tempos of Chanda and Daniel Levitin concluded that music has the music during their exercise on a stationary bike. Results administered anxiolytic drug. potential to augment immune response systems, but that showed that when exercisers listened to music with a be findings to date are preliminary. Sull, as Levitin notes it that was faster and synchronous with their movement, the Performing music, versus listening to music, may one article on the study, "I think the promise of music at bodies used up oxygen more efficiently than when the have a calming effect. In studies with adult choir singer medicine is that it's natural and it's cheap and it doesn't music played at a slower, unsynchronized tempo singing the same piece of music tended to synch up thei have the unwanted side effects that many pharmaceutics breathing and heart rates, producing a group-wide calm products do." According to sports researchers Peter Terry and Co effect. In a recent study. 272 premature babies were Karageorghis, "Music has the capacity to capture attentin exposed to different kinds of music- -either lullabies su Music may aid memory lift spirits, generate emotion, change or regulate mood, evoke memories, increase work output, reduce inhibition by parents or instruments played by a music therapist- My now-teenage son always listens to music while and encourage rhythmic movement - all of which have three times a weck while recovering in a neonatal ICU. studies, Far from being a distraction to him, he claims it potential applications in sport and exercise. Though all the musical forms improved the babies" helps him remember better when it comes to test time