Music must for people of all ages, says Dubai professor

Deeply engage people of all ages, in music and there would be more critical, analytical and reflective thinkers, able to decode and decide for improvements.

- Mariecar Jara-Puyod, Senior Reporter

That is because, according to a Dubai-based professor, broadly engaged in Neuroscience, Neonatology, Medical Psychology and Music Psychology, “music,” though not the ultra for intelligence, is essentially “organised sound,” and the brain is fundamentally “an organ that learns by detecting structure namely rhythm, timing, predictability and change.”

Canadian University Dubai-School of Health Sciences and Psychology Neuroscience and Medical Psychology Prof. Efthymios Papatzikis, moreover said that imperative - in order to obviate “human capital loss” - for the world's “future capacity for learning, productivity and well-being” are “state-led programmes" which utilise “safe and structured developmental inputs such as organised sound and parent voice,” from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).

These “reduce preventable Disability-Adjusted Life Years burden and protect the cognitive ‘infrastructure’ that any future-driven, knowledge-based society depends on.”

Papatziki's conclusion is in accordance with his extensive research on the NICU “family-centred care, cognitive growth and self-regulation,” that used neuroimaging, which is the analyses of the central nervous system/brain structure and function.