Music improves brain health and function in many ways. It makes you smarter, happier and more productive at any age. Listening is good, playing is even better.
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Participants were assessed on several markers of mental health including depression, anxiety and neuroticism, and reported the ways they most often listened to music to regulate their emotions. Analysis showed that anxiety and neuroticism were higher in participants who tended to listen to sad or aggressive music to express negative feelings, particularly in males. "This style of listening results in the feeling of expression of negative feelings, not necessarily improving the negative mood,"
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151022094959.htm