Good music

If you took piano lessons as a child, you may have a better appreciation for music today and a musical skill, all of which is good. But it seems there is more to the way you were benefited by those lessons.

Looks like you are better able to function today as a result of the way your brain was trained during that study of music. "Musical training doesn't just affect your musical ability — it provides tremendous benefits to children's emotional and behavioral maturation."

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A professor of psychiatry at University of Vermont says that if a child took lessons on a musical instrument, "it accelerated cortical organization in attention skill, anxiety management and emotional control." We could all use more of that.