Protection From Dementia by Playing Musical Instruments?

Santa Barbara Chiropractor weekly health news alert: This article discusses another music and dementia connection: instrumental music playing, even as a beginner, might help shield the brain from dementia related ailments.

Researchers had 70 peo­ple ages 60 to 83 per­form a vari­ety of tests to mea­sure visu­ospa­tial mem­ory, abil­ity to name objects, the brain’s abil­ity to adapt to new infor­ma­tion […] those who had engaged in musi­cal activ­ity for 10 years or longer scored sub­stan­tially bet­ter than those with no musi­cal activ­ity in their past. The longer peo­ple play instru­ments, the more ben­e­fits they may derive. All were ama­teurs who had started play­ing when they were 10 years old. The rela­tion­ship between cog­ni­tive skills and years of musi­cal activ­ity held up whether the musi­cians were cur­rently involved in mak­ing music or not.

This piece of writing  calls attention to the an connection betwixt and between producing music and intellectual attainments, that does not connote a provenience  consequence. It is not entirely clear how playing a musical instrument improves the brain. There are parts of the brain of a pro musician that are different than a non-pro.  It is implied that musical instrument playing enhances nueroplastic alterations in the brain.  These differences appear to help the brain cognitive function and are nueroprotective.
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