How playing an instrument benefits your brain

Your brain is a muscle. When you give it more challenging exercises, you’re strengthening your brain’s abilities to learn and grow. Now what if we added some music to that?

When you listen to music, various areas of your brain become active and engaged. But when it comes to you playing an actual instrument, that activity becomes more like a full-body brain workout experience. How does this happen? Let's find out as Anita Collins explains the fireworks that go off in musicians' brains when they play, and examines some of the long-term positive effects of this mental workout. 🧠

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