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Is musical engagement enough to keep the brain young?
Music-making and engagement in music-related activities have shown procognitive benefits for healthy and pathological populations, suggesting reductions in brain aging. A previous brain aging study, using Brain Age Gap Estimation (BrainAGE), showed that professional and amateur-musicians had younger...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9945036/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36574049 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00429-022-02602-x |
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author | Matziorinis, Anna Maria Gaser, Christian Koelsch, Stefan |
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description | Music-making and engagement in music-related activities have shown procognitive benefits for healthy and pathological populations, suggesting reductions in brain aging. A previous brain aging study, using Brain Age Gap Estimation (BrainAGE), showed that professional and amateur-musicians had younger appearing brains than non-musicians. Our study sought to replicate those findings and analyze if musical training or active musical engagement was necessary to produce an age-decelerating effect in a cohort of healthy individuals. We scanned 125 healthy controls and investigated if musician status, and if musical behaviors, namely active engagement (AE) and musical training (MT) [as measured using the Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index (Gold-MSI)], had effects on brain aging. Our findings suggest that musician status is not related to BrainAGE score, although involvement in current physical activity is. Although neither MT nor AE subscales of the Gold-MSI are predictive for BrainAGE scores, dispositional resilience, namely the ability to deal with challenge, is related to both musical behaviors and sensitivity to musical pleasure. While the study failed to replicate the findings in a previous brain aging study, musical training and active musical engagement are related to the resilience factor of challenge. This finding may reveal how such musical behaviors can potentially strengthen the brain’s resilience to age, which may tap into a type of neurocognitive reserve. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00429-022-02602-x. |
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spelling | pubmed-99450362023-02-23 Is musical engagement enough to keep the brain young? Matziorinis, Anna Maria Gaser, Christian Koelsch, Stefan Brain Struct Funct Original Article Music-making and engagement in music-related activities have shown procognitive benefits for healthy and pathological populations, suggesting reductions in brain aging. A previous brain aging study, using Brain Age Gap Estimation (BrainAGE), showed that professional and amateur-musicians had younger appearing brains than non-musicians. Our study sought to replicate those findings and analyze if musical training or active musical engagement was necessary to produce an age-decelerating effect in a cohort of healthy individuals. We scanned 125 healthy controls and investigated if musician status, and if musical behaviors, namely active engagement (AE) and musical training (MT) [as measured using the Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index (Gold-MSI)], had effects on brain aging. Our findings suggest that musician status is not related to BrainAGE score, although involvement in current physical activity is. Although neither MT nor AE subscales of the Gold-MSI are predictive for BrainAGE scores, dispositional resilience, namely the ability to deal with challenge, is related to both musical behaviors and sensitivity to musical pleasure. While the study failed to replicate the findings in a previous brain aging study, musical training and active musical engagement are related to the resilience factor of challenge. This finding may reveal how such musical behaviors can potentially strengthen the brain’s resilience to age, which may tap into a type of neurocognitive reserve. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00429-022-02602-x. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022-12-27 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC9945036/ /pubmed/36574049 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00429-022-02602-x Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Article Matziorinis, Anna Maria Gaser, Christian Koelsch, Stefan Is musical engagement enough to keep the brain young? |
title | Is musical engagement enough to keep the brain young? |
title_full | Is musical engagement enough to keep the brain young? |
title_fullStr | Is musical engagement enough to keep the brain young? |
title_full_unstemmed | Is musical engagement enough to keep the brain young? |
title_short | Is musical engagement enough to keep the brain young? |
title_sort | is musical engagement enough to keep the brain young? |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9945036/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36574049 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00429-022-02602-x |
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