Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Can music help someone with Alzheimer's disease?

Alzheimer's disease is a progressive disorder that causes brain cells to waste away and die. Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia, which is a term used to describe a group of symptoms that affect memory, ...

Neuroscience

Want to fire up the dance floor? Play low-frequency bass

To find out how different aspects of music influence the body, researchers turned a live electronic music concert into a lab study. By introducing levels of bass over speakers that were too low to hear and monitoring the ...

Genetics

New findings on the influence of DNA on musicality

Not everyone has a sense of rhythm, but does the ability to clap in time with a beat really say anything about a person's musicality overall? As part of an international research team, the Max Planck Institute for Empirical ...

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