The authors are all part of the Department of Youth Policy and Public Health Services at Erasmus MC University Medical Center. The lasting effects of listening to loud music on mental health and cognitive function. The study took a demographic from the Netherlands and asked them to fill out a questionnaire relating to their lifetime listening habits and their mental and physical states. Overall they found a correlation between high volumes of music and increased thoughts of suicide and depression. The polls proved to be a weakness of the piece as the responses are all based on whether or not the participants provided truthful and accurate information and not on anything.