Music can also help prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, which, in up to 95% of cases, can be driven by nongenetic ...

When a sound repeats steadily—like a drumbeat, a bell, or even a clock ticking—it doesn’t just echo in your ears. Deep inside your brain, something far more interesting happens. Instead of just ...

Music is often called the “universal language.” It heals, soothes, connects and cuts across every mood and stage of life. But ...

Music was one of the areas we were interested in,” senior researcher Joanne Ryan, head of the Biological Neuropsychiatry and ...

Kimberly King was chatting with her sister when she suddenly remembered there was an important email she was supposed to send out. “I’ve got to find my phone,” Kimberly said nervously. “Kimberly…it’s ...

A new study published in Advanced Science suggests that the brain uses two distinct, large-scale networks to recognize ...

People have long tried to use music as a tool to improve their abilities. Soldiers chanted songs when marching into battle, sailors sang songs on long voyages, and cloth makers sang when weaving. But ...

Lead author Shrey Grover administering brain stimulation to Jim Soter, a participant in the study. Source: Credit: Robert Reinhart, Provided for publication by Boston University Neuroscientists at ...