People who start learning an instrument at a young age have super connected brains compared to people who aren t musicians, according to a new study.
Experts from Stanford University School of Medicine compared the brains of 153 volunteers - including professional musicians, non-musicians and those with absolute pitch - the ability to recognise a tone without a reference.
They found that those that began training at a younger age - such as Mozart - have stronger brain connections than those who picked up their instrument later in life.
The discovery, published in the journal JNeurosci, shows just one of the ways in which people s experiences can shape the brain, the team explained.
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Stanford Medicine launches large-scale surveillance of coronavirus variants in Bay Area
Stanford Medicine researchers are screening diagnostic samples to identify known coronavirus variants circulating in the Bay Area, including those from the United Kingdom, South Africa and Brazil. Jan 21 2021
Benjamin Pinsky is the medical director of the Stanford Clinical Virology Laboratory, where researchers are screening samples for known coronavirus variants circulating in the Bay Area.
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In March, Stanford Medicine was one of the first academic medical centers in the country to develop a diagnostic test for the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Now, researchers in Stanford’s Clinical Virology Laboratory have developed additional tests to detect the presence of coronavirus variants, or strains, already spreading in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Brazil and some parts of the United States.