Listening to music helps recover from a stroke

The brain.oxfordjournals.org has published that music listening enhances recovery after a stroke.

This research is based in fifty four patients that completed the study out of sixty. The patients were separated into three groups, the control group, the music group and the language group.The language group is the group that instead of music listens to audio books.

The results show that:” recovery in the domains of verbal memory and focused attention improved significantly more in the music group than in the language and control groups. The music group also experienced less depressed and confused mood than the control group”.

This means that music increases the recovery rate and that from now on all patients, victims of a stroke, should be in a music environment for better recovery.