9 Science Facts To Make Your Day

By Stevie Shephard / April 15, 2016

8. Music Can Help Bring Dementia Patients Out Of Themselves

Alzheimer's is a terrible disease, but studies into the effects of music on Alzheimers patients are enough to give anyone hope.

Listening to music from their youth has been found to help kickstart memory and activity in patients and group singing or other musical participation can also boost cognitive activity and one study found that listening to

It is thought that music is incredibly evocative, much like smell, and can send the struggling brains of Alzheimer's patients into overdrive, bringing back memories that couldn't be brought back "manually".

It is also thought that the acts of singing and dancing are a good balance of engaging and instinctual, sparking greater brain activity and making them less vulnerable to being "lost".