Listening to music in your older years may be more than pure enjoyment — it could cut your dementia risk by nearly 40%. Older adults who listened to music at least once a week had a significantly ...

Reducing the risk of a life-altering neurodegenerative disease by almost half sounds like it should require some sort of miraculous medicinal intervention, but an increasing number of scientific ...

“Brain” by alaspoorwho is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. A new study from the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry suggests that listening to music regularly can decrease the risk of dementia.

Music activates multiple brain areas at once, creating a workout for the mind Dementia affects more than 6 million Americans and accounts for more than 100,000 deaths in the country each year, ...