Could playing Tchaikovsky’s ‘Nutcracker’ and other music improve kids’ brains?
– A child’s musical background also appears to correlate with cortical thickness in “brain areas that play a critical role in inhibitory control, as well as aspects of emotion processing.”
The findings bolster Hudziak’s hypothesis that a violin might help a child battle psychological disorders even better than a bottle of pills. “We treat things that result from negative things, but we never try to use positive things as treatment,” he says.
* Cortical Thickness Maturation and Duration of Music Training: Health-Promoting Activities Shape Brain Development DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2014.06.015
