{"id":2199567,"date":"2025-12-15T12:28:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2199567"},"modified":"2025-12-15T12:28:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:28:22","slug":"listening-to-music-can-lower-dementia-risk-by-nearly-40-new-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/listening-to-music-can-lower-dementia-risk-by-nearly-40-new-study-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening to music can lower dementia risk by nearly 40%, new study says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is the 78th instalment in a<\/em> series<\/em><\/span><\/a> on dementia, including the research into its causes and treatment, advice for carers, and stories of hope.<\/em><\/div>\n

I am listening to music as I write this: \u201cOut of My Head\u201d by First Aid Kit.<\/p>\n

It is an appropriate track, given the title of this series and the piece of writing I am working on.<\/p>\n

Recently, researchers from the school of public health and preventive medicine at Monash University in Australia published a study that found people who had a habit of always listening to music had a 39 per cent lower risk of developing dementia.<\/p>\n

They also scored higher in global cognition: how well you perform in all cognitive areas such as memory, attention, language and problem-solving.<\/p>\n

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The study also found that playing an instrument was associated with a 35 per cent reduced dementia risk. Photo: Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Professor Joanne Ryan, head of the university\u2019s biological neuropsychiatry and dementia unit, and one of the lead study authors, explained the research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.scmp.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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