Did you learn to play a musical instrument and do you think it helped with your anxiety and stress? A recent study compared music training, music listening and a non-musical activity for their effects on audio visual synchrony perception as well as depression, anxiety, and stress.

TLDR: Music training was shown to improve audio-visual processing and reduce depression, anxiety, and stress in a small study of 31 adults

Links:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-23340-4

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/12/221202124841.htm

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