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Regular listening to music reduces the risk of dementia

2025-11-16 08:48:00, Shëndeti CNA

Regular listening to music reduces the risk of dementia

Listening to your favorite singers can do more than just improve your mood - it can also protect your brain.

A new study by Australian researchers found that seniors who regularly listened to music had a 39% lower risk of developing dementia compared to those who did not make music a part of their daily lives.

The research, recently published as part of the ASPREE Study, followed more than 10,000 people aged 70 and older for about a decade to explore various lifestyle factors associated with healthy aging.

"Music was one of the areas we were interested in," senior researcher Joanne Ryan, head of the Biological Neuropsychiatry and Dementia unit at Monash University, told The Washington Post.

Ryan added that they found that over that time period, they performed better on memory tasks and also on a test of global cognitive function.

Of the 10,893 participants, about 7,000 said they listened to music most days and had the greatest reduction in dementia risk.

Ryan stressed that the study cannot prove that listening to music directly prevents dementia, but the results were strong enough to suggest a possible link.

Ryan noted that music has been shown to improve mood and stimulate multiple areas of the brain.

Other researchers say that listening to music activates motor areas, sensory areas, and regions that process emotions and imagination.

“One of the things that seems to be really important is just getting all these areas to communicate with each other in meaningful ways,” Elizabeth Margulis, director of the Music Cognition Lab at Princeton University, told The Post.

Furthermore, the study also found that playing music offered a small but still significant benefit, reducing the risk of dementia by about 35%.

“Listening to music is neuroprotective,” neuroscientist Daniel Levitin, who was not involved in the study, told The Post. He added that it builds resilience and helps protect the brain by creating new neural pathways./ CNA





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