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Marie J. C. Forgeard
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 51
Citations - 3787
Marie J. C. Forgeard is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Posttraumatic growth & Creativity. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 47 publications receiving 3068 citations. Previous affiliations of Marie J. C. Forgeard include Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center & University of Pennsylvania.
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Musical Training Shapes Structural Brain Development
Krista L. Hyde,Jason P. Lerch,Andrea Norton,Marie J. C. Forgeard,Ellen Winner,Alan C. Evans,Gottfried Schlaug +6 more
TL;DR: Structural brain changes after only 15 months of musical training in early childhood are demonstrated, which were correlated with improvements in musically relevant motor and auditory skills and suggest that structural brain differences in adult experts (whether musicians or experts in other areas) are likely due to training-induced brain plasticity.
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Doing the right thing: Measuring wellbeing for public policy
TL;DR: In this paper, a review summarizes the state of research on the various domains of wellbeing measured by psychologists and social scientists, and provides an overview of the main theoretical perspectives that integrate these domains.
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Network analysis of depression and anxiety symptom relationships in a psychiatric sample.
Courtney Beard,Alex J. Millner,Marie J. C. Forgeard,Eiko I. Fried,Kean J. Hsu,Michael T. Treadway,Chelsea Leonard,Sarah J. Kertz,Thröstur Björgvinsson +8 more
TL;DR: Exining depression and anxiety symptoms as dynamic systems may provide novel insights into the maintenance of these mental health problems.
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Practicing a musical instrument in childhood is associated with enhanced verbal ability and nonverbal reasoning.
TL;DR: The strong predictive effect of training duration suggests that instrumental music training may enhance auditory discrimination, fine motor skills, vocabulary, and nonverbal reasoning.
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The engine of well-being.
TL;DR: The study of well-being is hampered by the multiplicity of approaches, but focusing on a single approach begs the question of what "well-being" really is as discussed by the authors.