Maybe you’ve heard that classical music is good for you.  Or that playing classical music to infants is good for their brain development.  Then, there was the whole Baby Einstein thing.  What was with those videos?  They were mesmerizing no matter what your age.  Well, its official, the studies have shown that music is good for you – specifically for your brain.  Apparently, the brain has all these neural pathways that make up the road map for information to travel.  When the brain hears music, it forms much more complex neural pathways for music information to travel.  This greatly promotes brain development.  Once these more complex neural pathways are formed from the music, other information (non-music) can access them as well.

Another aspect to music and the brain is the healing process in the brain.  When people have suffered various brain injuries, stroke, diseases of the mind such as Parkinson’s, the road to healing is long and sometimes never achieved.  Where music comes in is when the victims of these maladies begin to incorporate it into their daily life, it offers new hope to the healing road.  As people sing, listen to music, or play musical instruments, no matter their age, new neural pathways are formed.  As I mentioned earlier, these pathways are much more complex than normal neural pathways.  These pathways offer a way for communication to parts of the brain where communication has been very limited.  The brain actually is rewiring itself.  It is amazing!  Studies have shown that stroke victims who incorporate music into their healing process have recovered quicker than those who don’t.  Studies have also shown that Parkinsons’ victims who incorporate music have improved cognition, mood, and muscle control.  Music seems to be the missing link that the brain needed to build a new  road map.

It is interesting to say the least.  And for those victims of brain-type injuries, etc., it offers a hope that wasn’t there before.  Anything that offers hope, in my opinion, really offers life.  You have to have hope to be able to go on in difficult times.  You have to have hope to believe in healing at all.  If music can restore people’s hope, then it has done more than any medicine out there can.

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