Building a better brain....

 

Building a better brain through music, dance and poetry...

 

A growing body of research is probing art’s effects on the brain.

 

As for Michael Kofi Esson... to make sense of difficult science, he often turns to art.

 

 

When he’s struggling to understand the immune system or a rare disease, music and poetry serve as an anchor.

 

“It helps calm me down and actively choose what to focus on,” says Esson, a second –year student at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

 

Esson, who was born in Ghana, also thinks his brain is better at absorbing all that science because of the years he spent playing the trumpet and studying Afro beat musicians lie Fela Kuti.

 

Source:Reuters