{"id":1327,"date":"2024-06-10T23:41:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T23:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/how-playing-an-instrument-affects-the-adolescent-brain\/"},"modified":"2024-06-10T23:41:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T23:41:22","slug":"how-playing-an-instrument-affects-the-adolescent-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/how-playing-an-instrument-affects-the-adolescent-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"How playing an instrument affects the adolescent brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What impact does growing up in a musical environment or during the COVID-19 pandemic have on the brain development of teenagers? This was the focus of psychologist Lina van Drunen&#8217;s Ph.D. research, which studied hundreds of twins. Her findings reveal that practicing music slows brain development, presenting unique opportunities. Developmental psychologist Lina van Drunen understands the dedication required to learn a musical instrument like no one else. &#8220;I play guitar and sing, so I was particularly interested in discovering how these activities affect brain development,&#8221; she says. As she delved <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/how-playing-an-instrument-affects-the-adolescent-brain\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What impact does growing up in a musical environment or during the COVID-19 pandemic have on the brain development of teenagers? This was the focus of psychologist Lina van Drunen&#8217;s Ph.D. research, which studied hundreds of twins. Her findings reveal that practicing music slows brain development, presenting unique opportunities. Developmental psychologist Lina van Drunen understands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}