Pavarotti is Healthy (To Listen To)
For reasons known only to ourselves, we interrupt Wednesday’s series, to bring you this instead… Who was Robert Burton? An English vicar of the seventeenth century, that’s who. And one of the earliest scholars to deal with he subject of depression. In my workshops in Emotional Intelligence, I regularly quote from his famous work The Anatomy of Melancholy, when dealing with...
Read MoreIf Music is the Food of Brainpower, Play On!
Canadian researchers have discovered that there is a learning link between children who play a musical instrument and their performance in the classroom. Read about it here. Musically trained children tend to do better in memory tests and have a higher IQ scores on average than those who do not. How does it work? A professor, who specialises in the psychology of music, claims that music of...
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