Picking up a musical instrument gives you a higher IQ, according to a new study of more than 4,600 volunteers. New research has claimed that learning to play a musical instrument increases ...

Learning a musical instrument, particularly through improvisation, could boost cognitive skills such as learning and memory ...

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Learning to play a musical instrument could improve reactions and even combat some of the effects of ageing, according to new research. Musicians have faster reaction times than non-musicians, found ...

Taking up an instrument? Great! But be warned - it’s not as easy as you might think... No matter how hard you protest, everyone you know will assume that just because you’ve started learning an ...

First it was playing Mozart to ­babies to improve brain development – which was never really proved. And now ­Edinburgh University researchers in psychology and music are proposing that music in ...

Maybe you played recorder at school, or piano is on your CV, but all you can remember is Chopsticks. As ever more shows feature actor-musicians, Susan Elkin finds out how working on that Grade 3 might ...

People with mental health issues may benefit from learning to play an instrument, after a new study found that the task can boost mental wellbeing. The research also revealed that the music lessons ...

Low-income British families are at risk of under-representation in the music industry, as children are priced out of learning instruments, new research suggests. The data indicates that families from ...

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