By Isabel Brunkan, member of the HAEi Youngsters Advisory Group

Are you in need of a mood booster? Have you lost your motivation, and are you looking to get it back? As the end of the school year approaches for many youngsters, it’s easy to lose motivation with the prospect of summer vacation just around the corner. Equally difficult can be regaining motivation after an attack and rebuilding the energy for exercise, schoolwork, and friends after having a flare. 

Luckily, music can help! From triggering the brain’s reward center and cueing learning to boosting your mood, neuroscience has shown how impactful music can be for us. >> Follow the link to learn more about how music can be used as a reward to help you learn.

Additionally, the type of music matters! Stuck thinking of a topic for a final essay or on a hard math problem? You can trigger creativity by listening to specific types of music! A study investigating different types of music found that listening to Vivaldi helped trigger innovation in study participants. >> Have a look at the study here.

The study found that listening to happy music resulted in a more diverse set of answers, thereby possibly enhancing mental flexibility and creativity! 

Simply looking for a mood booster to get you energized and ready for the day? 

A neuroscientist from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands worked with a British electronics brand to identify common traits of songs that reportedly made people “feel good”. A mix of tempo and lyrics was found to be influential, and since publication, several playlists have been created with songs that fit these criteria. >> Read more about this here.

Don’t have Spotify? No worries – people have made YouTube playlists with similar songs as well. >> Have a look and listen. 

I hope you’re enjoying the playlists. 

HAEi Youngsters’ Community website >> youngsters.haei.org

The HAEi Youngsters’ Community website is dedicated to young people, or as we like to call ourselves – youngsters – living with Hereditary Angioedema (HAE).
Whether you are newly diagnosed, starting school, university, moving abroad or starting a new job, this is the place for you. On our website you can find resources and tools that can help you learn more about HAE. Whether you want to build awareness about HAE in your community or become an HAE advocate, or simply need a way to explain what HAE is at school – we got you covered!

Our goal is to learn, stay connected, grow our global community, share our experiences and have fun together!

>> Join us and together we can make memories to last us a lifetime!

The Youngsters Advisory Group