ArticleFrontiers in psychology2022
Musical Activity During Life Is Associated With Multi-Domain Cognitive and Brain Benefits in Older Adults.
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- Functional Neural Architecture of Working Memory in Musicians: An ALE Meta-Analysis and Review.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive sciencePooled it
- Quality of life in older adults is enhanced by piano practice: Results from a randomized controlled trial.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Trial
- Acquisition of musical skills and abilities in older adults-results of 12 months of music training.BMC geriatrics · 2024Trial
- When Music Loses Its Pleasure: Hippocampal Cingulum White Matter as a Structural Mediator of Musical Reward Decline in Aging.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Pathways to resilience: relationships between cognitive reserve, psychological debt, and Alzheimer's disease biomarkers.Alzheimer's research & therapy · 2026Article
- Do music-related leisure activities influence cardiovascular disease risk, blood pressure and heart rate in older adults?International journal of cardiology. Cardiovascular risk and prevention · 2025Article
- Examining the influence of musical sophistication, cognitive performance, and social skills on the Brain Age Gap Estimate (BrainAGE).Brain structure & function · 2025Article
- Music students' psychological profiles: unveiling three coping clusters using schema mode inventory.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Effects of group music sessions on cognitive and psychological functions in healthy older adults.Frontiers in aging · 2025Article
- Never too late to start musical instrument training: Effects on working memory and subcortical preservation in healthy older adults across 4 years.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Relationship between Playing Musical Instruments and Subjective Well-Being: Enjoyment of Playing Instruments Scale.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Long-term training alters response dynamics in the aging auditory cortex.Hearing research · 2024Article
- Environmental enrichment is associated with favorable memory-related functional brain activity patterns in older adults.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2024Article
- Short communication: Lifetime musical activity and resting-state functional connectivity in cognitive networks.PloS one · 2024Article
- Music training is related to late ERP modulation and enhanced performance during Simon task but not Stroop task.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
- Musical experience prior to traumatic exposure as a resilience factor: a conceptual analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- Long-term environmental enrichment is associated with better fornix microstructure in older adults.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2023Article
- Music and the aging brain - Exploring the role of long-term Carnatic music training on cognition and gray matter volumes.Journal of neurosciences in rural practiceArticle
- Music Engagement as a Source of Cognitive Reserve.American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementiasReview
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40 authors at 12 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Regular musical activity as a complex multimodal lifestyle activity is proposed to be protective against age-related cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease. This cross-sectional study investigated the association and interplay between musical instrument playing during life, multi-domain cognitive abilities and brain morphology in older adults (OA) from the DZNE-Longitudinal Cognitive Impairment and Dementia Study (DELCODE) study. Participants reporting having played a musical instrument across three life periods (
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