Is musical engagement enough to keep the brain young?
Anna Maria Matziorinis; Christian Gaser; Stefan Koelsch · 2022 · Brain Structure and Function
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Abstract
Music-making and engagement in music-related activities have shown procognitive benefits for healthy and pathological populations, suggesting reductions in brain aging. A previous brain aging study, using Brain Age Gap Estimation (BrainAGE), showed that professional and amateur-musicians had younger appearing brains than non-musicians. Our study sought to replicate those findings and analyze if musical training or active musical engagement was necessary to produce an age-decelerating effect in a cohort of healthy individuals. We scanned 125 healthy controls and investigated if musician status,
Abstract by Anna Maria Matziorinis; Christian Gaser; Stefan Koelsch, Brain Structure and Function (2022) — licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.1007/s00429-022-02602-x