The Effects of Music on the Brain
THE SCIENCE BEHIND IT
In the present day, doctors tell us that music has many significant
effects on the human brain and can enhance the functionality of its
neural networks, affects heart rate, lower blood pressure, stress
reduction, also provides relief to patients undergoing surgery, as
well as heart attack and stroke victims. But these clinical
explanations would not be enough to do justice to the effect music
has on a man’s mind and its surroundings. But poets and
philosophers filled the gaps to understand music to its fullest.
Clinical experts tell us that isolating from society can increase
cardiac risk, but Robert Browning said that “he who hears music
feels his solitude peopled all at once”. Psychology tells us that
expressing emotions through music is healthy, but Tolstoy said that
“music is the shorthand of emotion”. Doctors teach that human
warmth can bend woes, but Shakespeare said that “if music be the
food of love, play on”