Music 'releases mood-enhancing chemical in the brain' →

Music releases a chemical in the brain that has a key role in setting good moods, a study has suggested.

The study, reported in Nature Neuroscience, found that the chemical was released at moments of peak enjoyment.

Researchers from McGill University in Montreal said it was the first time that the chemical - called dopamine - had been tested in response to music.

Dopamine increases in response to other stimuli such as food and money.

It is known to produce a feel-good state in response to certain tangible stimulants - from eating sweets to taking cocaine.

Dopamine is also associated with less tangible stimuli - such as being in love.

This is so true. Everytime I listen to Ma muzac i feel awesome

(Source: azspot, via dubstepfriday)

∞ 1/13/2011 (1:32am) 82 notes

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    This guy I know — Scott — had a book called Your Brain On Music or something and I always wanted to read it, but I never...
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  7. iwillalwaysbeakidinmybrain reblogged this from dubstepfriday and added:
    This is so true. Everytime I listen to Ma muzac i feel awesome
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    Music releases a chemical in the brain that has a key role in setting good moods, a study has suggested. The study,...
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  13. ivyo reblogged this from anacortes-has-a-secret-love and added:
    I didn’t have to find it. It came to me. This music blog I follow posted it. Based on my one semester of psychology and...
  14. anacortes-has-a-secret-love reblogged this from ivyo and added:
    I could’ve told you that, silly. Great, now I’m assuming this means I have to find articles on cell biology? Haha. I’m...
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