10 Amazing Brain Benefits of Piano Playing - Music & Neuroplasticity | PIANO MAENIA

In this video I will go deeper into the facts and science behind the relationship of music & neuroplasticity and I'll also share my personal experience. I'm presenting 10 benefits to our brains that occur while playing piano or music in general. Initially I was inspired by @hubermanlab to learn more about neuroscience and was always fascinated by our brains. If you would like to see more performance videos you can head over to my channel @Slavamusic
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Here you can find the articles, research, papers and journals mentioned in the video:
Neuroplasticity & Music:
www.researchgate.net/publicat...
Musical training, neuroplasticity and cognition -www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Gaser C, Schlaug G. Brain structures differ between musicians and non-musicians.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14534...
Playing a Musical Instrument as a Protective Factor against Dementia and Cognitive Impairment: A Population-Based Twin Study - www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Rodrigues A, Guerra L, Loureiro M. Visual attention in musicians and non-musicians: a comparative study - www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Bengtsson S, Nagy Z, Skare S, Forsman L, Forssberg H, Ullén F. Extensive piano practicing has regionally specific effects on white matter development. - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16116...
Schlaug G, Jäncke L, Huang Y, Staiger J, Steinmetz H. Increased corpus callosum size in musicians. Neuropsychologia. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8524453/
Gray matter density and white matter integrity in pianists’ brain: A combined
structural and diffusion tensor MRI study
brainvitge.org/papers/Han%20Y_...
Memory Plos One
journals.plos.org/plosone/art...
IQ
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Long Term Effects
Brain morphometry shows effects of long-term musical practice in middle-aged keyboard players
www.frontiersin.org/articles/...
How Musical Training Shapes the Adult Brain: Predispositions and Neuroplasticity
www.frontiersin.org/articles/...

[@Stanpianoman-zs7gy]

I've only begun to learn to play keyboard but have noticed my great growing excitement is doing so. I've had decades of depressing things which have happened to me and I had no joy in living. Nothing made me happy no matter what it was. Now after playing I have a new lease on life, everything is exciting and all I dream about is playing the keyboard. I feel like a kid again even at being 64 years old.

[@shansmith7644]

Hooray! Ride that musical victory train! Joyously!

[@guillermiro2079]

Did you had adictions in the past that had changed by playing the piano?

[@BlindLibrary]

I'm 45 and started playing at the age of 6. For some reason videogame music is what I enjoy playing. While other kids play outside, I seclude to a piano and escape to the playground in my mind where at least I can't injure myself or suffer a concussion while playing?

[@snehatsamuel30]

My dad forced me to learn the piano and i used to cry and completed 2 grades.. It's been ten years i left playing the piano and realised my thoughts were more organised focused and creative when i was younger .. Hoping to start playing the piano soon again

[@thankyou9534]

That is normal. Hormones mess us up when we grow up. No need to go back to piano. Find something else. Try something new 😉😊

[@ballsackboy420]

Bro look up pianosecrets on KZbin he teaches many classical songs for free

[@traeza777]

Come and try guitar and violins and you'll cry more if you think playing piano makes you cry ...had bleeding fingers ...but ooooh sooooo much fun ... What beauty from Pain... You definitely should play an instrument...

[@hamsterakia]

Despite the information given on this video, it seems that some people aren't meant for learning music. You sound like one of them...

[@hamsterakia]

Did you really think long and hard to come up with this nonsense?!

[@deborahspiano]

As a pianist and neuroscience enthusiast, I really loved this video! Thank you!❤

[@pianosmaene]

Thank you Debora, happy to read this :)

[@sherrellmedine]

Thanks - 54 yrs of age, began the journey 65 weeks! Intermediate III now! Beneficial, fun & inspired even more now.

[@hamsterakia]

Good for you! 💪

[@traeza777]

Music releaves stress when you are playing infront of 10000 people...no stress ...I love that playing an instrument teaches you to be really calm and how to deal with anxiety ....Ohhh i love it

[@cutefidgety]

You should be in a state of flow in performance. Adrenaline yes, stress no unless you’re not prepared

[@traeza777]

@@cutefidgety to the unprepared...stress is an enemy but to the prepared Stress is motivation.

[@themiachiu]

I was just so amazed after I practice piano as an adult. It seemed like my experience is just a normal thing for all piano players 😂

[@eleniprifti]

Great video! You did mention stress reduction, but I would like to add that stress reduction can lead to various health benefits, and remission of various chronic diseases that are very common nowadays. Thus, indirectly, learning a musical instrument can help people with stress-related diseases, like autoimmune disease, IBS, migranes, sleep disorders, eating disorders, and many more, much faster than medication would.

[@thepianoplayer416]

Playing music has a lot of physical & mental benefits for sure. When we were younger, many parents get us enrolled in music lessons. Music is often taught like technical exercises. We'd practice and only play in front of the teacher. After a year or 2 many lose interest and never touch an instrument again. Coming from a non-musical family, everybody around had some music education but nobody really got into playing music in a serious way. My parents didn't encourage anybody in the family to continue after a few years of lessons (guitar, piano or violin) that didn't get anywhere. Went back to playing music as an adult eventually. In the beginning many of us would find a music teacher and play only the assigned repertoire. Nowadays finding sheet music online is so easy there is a whole library of music within reach. Once you learn to read sufficiently you're not restricted to just the teacher's assigned pieces.

[@truthministry.]

I have Tourette's, but when I play piano the ticks disappear completely. As soon as I finish playing, they come back.

[@lorispozzati4553]

Started by my own when I was 10 and now I can piano, guitar and violin , ok I'm 55 now

[@Drumtzer]

Not only educative but also super entertaining!

[@dominic6055]

Life is play, intelligence plays, education must be playful or else it's propaganda

[@lauraroberts2250]

Most importantly, it's fun! 😊

[@BlindLibrary]

Small question; What's the song at 9:55 playing towards the end of the video? I've always found that song pretty.

[@tiejunzhang654]

thank you

[@TheFlowerstarrr]

Well made and a lot of interesting information! Thanks for sharing 🙏🥰🎶🎹

[@djRanzino]

Awesome video bro!

[@bramski5933]

Amazing!

[@RossBaneOfficial]

This is so motivating!!!

[@NatalyaFurman]

Very interesting information👍

[@nissarahamed]

Amazing video. Thanks for sharing science and data rather than anecdotes.

[@moy9022]

Thanks for sharing, it's nice and excited to know that playing piano can benifit our whole brain. I will continue to work on it.

[@victoria_sg]

😍 I agree🎹

[@marcelo.trajano]

Love to watch high quality content like yours. Great research done (including references from pubmed). Definitely Subscribed!

[@pianosmaene]

Much appreciated! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@adrianholovaty]

Thanks for the inspiration!

[@donnieiforrest1733]

Piano players squeeze & stuff the whole Piano 🎹into their head & soul, in passing take their passion with them to reincarnate to find another Gig to play🎼

[@BlindLibrary]

What's next? I reincarnate to play the LegendsOfTheHiddenTemple kids' gameshow music, lol?

[@franciscogabriel8108]

The background piano playing was really distracting... I loved it! Of course, I needed to listen to everything twice, once paying attention to the music and the other listening to what you were saying. Anyways, thanks for the outstanding selection.

[@Frta]

Hi! I found your video because I saw that you have cited one of our works (the meta-analysis on memory on plos one). However we did not test older musicians, we did a meta-analysis on the difference in memory performance between musicians and nonmusicians, just in adults. In any case, it has to be noted that correlational studies (many of those you have cited) cannot prove causality, so it is still an open question whether music does really improve certain cognitive skills (beyond those needed to play an instrument of course). Great work, I wanted just to add some "scientist" point of view and clarify the error, as I am working on this very topic.

[@pianosmaene]

Thanks so much for this! I'm not a scientist myself and these details have simply passed my attention, I hope that people will understand the general consensus that playing an instrument is beneficial. Will you be testing older musicians in a future study? Thanks for the wonderful work you're doing!

[@Frta]

@@pianosmaene Not at the moment, but there might be a big work coming up in the next couple of years! It would be great to prove the benefits of music, it is just very difficult in simple correlational studies. But we are getting there and there are anyway longitudinal studies, or intervention studies that showed promising results. Thanks for your interest in bringing up this topic to the general public!

[@DrQuizzler]

Cool!! You're that "other Slava" guy who collab'd with Annique on Beethoven V!! The benefits of playing music have been long known on an anecdotal level, but it's great to hear of empirical evidence from respected academic studies corroborating them as well. Hopefully one needn't be a classical virtuoso to enjoy the neurological benefits of piano study. Great stuff!!

[@pianosmaene]

You definitely don't need to play at a high level, the whole point is to simply practice and play on a regular basis and you'll reap those benefits!

[@BlindLibrary]

Wonder where videogames and ambient music fit in that, lol?

[@peterroarke9586]

Thank you very much‼️‼️🎹🎶

[@jarrodyuki7081]

it teaches you griti and how to orgnaizie your imemdaite mmeorieis and thoughts. the finger tehcniqeu is the most improtant you can play the next chord without the rigth finger technique.

[@kiksou69]

As a pianist and a super smart guy I love this video 😂😂😂

[@lauraroberts2250]

I love your modesty. 😁

[@kiksou69]

@@lauraroberts2250 you would love the man too 😂😂

[@lauraroberts2250]

@@kiksou69 I suspect this is true! 😁

[@kiksou69]

@@lauraroberts2250 it is ! Try me… I mean wait.. you know what I meant 😂

[@lauraroberts2250]

@@kiksou69 😆

[@jarrodyuki7081]

it teaches you grit and how to organize your immiedate mmemoreis and thoughts the finger tehcniqeu is the most improtatn you cant play the next chord without the rgit hfiinger thencique. finger thecniqeu si nubmer one when palying the piano.

[@jeannettestuckelschwaiger5071]

How about old seniors citizen over 70? would playing music instrument help the brain too? Or is it beneficial only for young brain?

[@pianosmaene]

It's definitely beneficial for ALL ages!

[@BlindLibrary]

Really depends on how early they were introduced to it. I myself never liked lessons, yet let me improvise and you've got more problems than a contestant coughing his way to a million pounds on the British WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire...

[@lindawoodard1330]

I hated piano lessons but loved playing the piano. I am glad it also has benefits

[@kellykerr5225]

I just visited my mom today and she will die soon. She has Alzheimer’s. One thing found to increase your chances of getting Alzheimer’s is watching Fox News or other similar propaganda. So this video made me feel great, especially after today. I also learned to speak Spanish and I know a tiny bit German. I keep encouraging my daughter to do the same. She’s in college and super smart. She’s smarter than me even after my extra learning. She was a born leader. She needs to get her social abilities back. I think if she’s this smart, if she became a musician and speak another language too, maybe her brain could cure cancer or something. She told me she was going to cure aides, cancer and migraines when she was in third grade. She needs to get on that soon lol.

[@junedrake5616]

Sorry about your mom, but your comment about Fox News really make me laugh.

[@kellykerr5225]

@@junedrake5616 Well laugh it up as they continue to destroy lives. Read the book Foxocracy by Tobin Smith and then you will understand what I’m saying is a fact. My parents are dead and you think that’s funny? Well enjoy your Christmas while you still have family while I will be home alone.

[@kellykerr5225]

@@junedrake5616 Also, it’s no longer my mom will die soon, she’s dead now. Thanks Fox News, for making them terrified about everything.

[@lamer8310]

very tragic what the western media did to your mother before her passing... its ruthless out there. :/

[@BlindLibrary]

Shame we can't just shove a piano or evena digital piano into the house and give her a chance to explore what's even slightly possible. Bless her soul.

[@yousofalmghari2787]

What if these benefits don't show? Can you feel the benefits by making your own music or can you feel them by playing existing songs?

[@BlindLibrary]

It's funny. Some days nothing may happen at all. Though keep in mind that neuroplasticity Is Not an Instant Breakfast. It has to be cooked and nurtured carefully. You'll only see results in spurts as things come to pass.

[@MeaHeaR]

Geetar Playing deos the opposite Unt beá destroýéđ thé Brãnê

[@typingcat]

Increase my killing power, eh?