How Does Music Affect Your Brain?

If you want to firm up your body, head to the gym. If you want to exercise your brain, listen to music.

There are few things that stimulate the brain the way music does. If you want to keep your brain engaged throughout the aging process, listening to or playing music is a great tool. It provides a total brain workout.

Research has shown that listening to music can reduce anxiety, blood pressure, and pain as well as improve sleep quality, mood, mental alertness, and memory.


Vocabulary:

• GET PUMPED

• CHILL
An intense shivery sensation.

• TO REGISTER
To record, show, or express something.

• ANNOYING
Making you feel slightly angry.

• MOTOR SKILLS
The body's ability to manage the process of movement.


Source: BuzzFeedVideo / hopkinsmedicine.org