Researchers in Italy have discovered that dementia affects musical taste; to whit, people suffering from dementia can start to appreciate musical genres they have always detested, such as pop music.

About two years after his diagnosis, he began to listen at full volume to a popular Italian pop music band. Formerly a classical music listener, he had once referred to pop music as "mere noise".

There are several theories as to why this is so; some conjecture that some forms of dementia cause an attraction to novelty, by increasing the dominance of the right frontal lobe over the left; others that dementia and certain forms of brain damage can bring out previously latent artistic inclinations.

(I wonder what Tanya would make of this...)

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