In addition to leading an active life so that joints and other body parts do not rust over the years, we must do the same with the brain. In this vein, the research he published came about International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.
He discovered what hobby was good for the brain as he got older. And it's nothing but music. To reach this conclusion, they analyzed a total of 1,107 people from the UK. They are all over 40 years old. Their average age was approximately 68 years.
Each of them had to submit a report on it Your experience with music, ranging from whether they play an instrument, to whether they sing, to whether they regularly listen to music, among other things. In addition, they analyzed their working memory capacity, as well as their executive function.
They then proceeded to compare the results of people who had acquired musical experience and those who had not. Experts have realized that devoting part of your free time to music contributes to good cognitive health..
This was explained by the expert on memory, brain and aging at Hackensack Meridian Health, Dr. Small GaryIn statements to the American edition of HuffPost.
“This large-scale, longitudinal study supports previous research suggesting that music training supports cognitive health by improving memory Reducing the risk of age-related cognitive decline“, pointed out the little one.
However, out of the total number of participants, 83% of them are women. Therefore, experts point out that these are not results that can be fully guided and extrapolated to the rest of the population.
