Is there any Scientific Research Indicating that Music Helps Children Mentally?

Furthermore, researchers such as Dr. Oliver Sacks has confirmed that certain areas of the brain, including the auditory and motor cortex, actually develop and grow through participation in music making.  Dr. Sacks has repeatedly observed, through neuro-technology, that musicians have more developed "musical regions" of the brain as compared to non-musicians.  Dr. Sacks has been examining the relationship of music and the brain for about four decades.

Dr. Sack's 2007 book Musicophilia (love of music) gives real life stories of the profound effect that music has on people and reveals that "music occupies more areas of our brain than language does...".  Further, Dr. Sacks concludes "We humans are a musical species no less than a linguistic one."