Music Teaching Tips

A groundbreaking study published in the international research journal, Medical Science Monitor (February 2005), demonstrated for the first time that learning to play a keyboard instrument reversed multiple components of the human stress response on the genomic level. The study's principal investigator, Barry Bittman, M.D. of the Mind-Body Medical Center explained that these unique findings shed new light not only on the value of active music participation, but also extend our understanding of individualized human biological stress responses on an unprecedented level.