Music’s Superpowers (Arte): Incredible Physical and Psychological Benefits of Music

Music’s Superpowers (Arte): Incredible Physical and Psychological Benefits of Music

Music has many virtues. It’s relaxing, rejuvenating and motivating at the same time. It can also be a valuable support for the most vulnerable and athletes.

What if the Brahms or the Rolling Stones gave them superpowers? In recent years, developments in neuroscience have shown the effect of music on the brain from the fetus to the last year. An antidote to stress, pain, memory loss, but also helping to support language learning in children or help combat dyslexia, its benefits appear more and more as experiences that are often astonishing around the world multiply to gauge their scope…

At the service of very premature babies

Sharp alarms, the engine of the incubators… all these noise disturbances create stress for the preterm child. Dijon Opera launched an unprecedented project in partnership with the city’s university hospital in 2016. Once a month, lyric singers come to hum a lullaby for these little ones, who were born very early. The benefits of singing are many. Tested with daily care, it relaxes the baby and stimulates the sucking reflex, which is particularly sensitive in intubated premature babies.

A serious ally for athletes

If music softens morals, it improves sports performance. Thanks to the dopamine discharge it produces, it reduces the feeling of fatigue by half and helps the person to push his limits.

Invaluable help for young people

It gives excitement, plays an important role in the socialization of adolescents and allows them to express their feelings. Playing and listening will create a bond they can’t find anywhere else.

Super Powers of Music, Saturday, April 1 at 22:25 Arte

Caty Dewanckele

Source: Programme Television

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