The Sweet Sound of Memories

New research out of the Boston University School of Medicine discovered that music can help Alzheimer's patients remember new information.

The study, published in Neuropsychologia, revealed that Alzheimer's patients had an easier time recalling song lyrics when they were accompanied by music instead of simply spoken. Interestingly, though, the healthy control group in the study didn't experience the same memory benefit, which seemingly indicates that the memory encoding and retrieval process of musical information in Alzheimer's patients is fundamentally different than the process in healthy seniors.

To view the study's abstract, click here.