It is surprising that music is not used in more medical treatments, there are many things that we as a public are uninformed of, and one is that music can really improve our heath.
Music is wired to the motor areas of the brain. The motor is the same part of the brain that helps us move. When we hear music, part of the signal flows up the motor cortex and creates a connection. Playing music has more of an impact than just listening to it. Levitin says there is a relationship between learning in general and exposure to music at a young age. Playing music has a greater impact than merely listening. "Learning an instrument helps people to pay attention better to everything in their intellectual environment," he says. "The kind of focused attention that is required to make sense of music either as a listener or a performer turns out to carry over to other cognitive domains" (Logue).
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English: Albert Einstein Français : Portrait d'Al...Music has been used to help people that have seizures, high or low blood pressure, A.D.D Children, Mental Illness, Depression, Stress, Insomnia and premature infants. Music can modify metabolic rates and increase and decrease blood pressure, effect energy levels and digestion positively and negatively depending on the type of music. These are a lot of medical issues that are very common, thirty minutes of listening to calming music is equal to one dose of valium according to musicologist Julius Portnoy (kunthy). Music has been also proven to cause illness, the right or wrong types of music can be harmful to the body. It is incredible to see how in certain situations or therapies music can help save or end a life.
Responses to music are easily detected in the human body. Classical music from certain periods can make a persons...