Playing an instrument is good for the brain

[soulman101]

It helps on lots of fronts. You use both halves of the brain, the creative and the analytical (especially with composing) maths is involved with timing, English with Lyrics (having to adapt and change words different options to fit lines comfortably) With Mental health conditions music is often a way of calming the nervous system. Loads of benefits.

Hi Boingy, there's a video on you-tube showing a research on the brain using an MRI scanner, a composer and artist had his brain scanned whilst listening to his music.
The acitivity in his brain was lighting up all over his brain , but when they asked him to try and compose a new piece. his brain activety was off the scale.
A lot of hospitals in the USA use music therapy to aid recovery from brain injury's .
When I used to visit Mom in the care home , at lot of residents with dementia who normally would just sit there spaced out or very agitated.
You should see ther faces lght up when a singer came in in and most of them wood join in.