Study: Musical training protects brain!!!

I have always known that there is more in to music than just singing at the top of your lungs, just as it has been shown that there is more to smoking pots. Studies have shpwn that smoking of pots shrinks the brain but nobody ever knew what music does to the brain up until now.

It has been shown that musical training in younger years can prevent the ability to comprehend speech in later life. This is the conclusion of a new research.
Among the cognitive functions that can dimimish with age is the ability to understand speech.

'Musical activities are an engaging form of cognitive brain training and we are seeing robust evidence of brain plasticity from musical training not just in younger brains, but also
in older brains too', said Gavin Bidelman, who led the study as a post doctoral fellow at the Rotman Research Institute in Canada.

The findings of the study is published in the Journal of Neuroscience.