Music, source of happiness
A group of scientists found that listening to music is an extremely intense and pleasurable experience for the entire body.
Music, a source of happiness Copy Cwp April 8, 2018 No Comments A group of scientists from McGill University in Quebec, Canada and the Montreal Neurological Institute, found that listening to music does not only have a pleasant effect on the ears but is an extremely intense and pleasant experience for the entire body. The thing is that other parts of the body intervene in this process. Since it increases the production of dopamine in the brain. A chemical substance, a neurotransmitter, that brain cells release to communicate with each other, sending pleasure signals to other parts of the body. Dopamine participates in the brain’s reward system. Therefore, it also intervenes in the feeling of pleasure. This occurs when carrying out activities such as eating, having sex or using illegal drugs. For the research carried out by Valorie Salimpoor and Robert Zatorre, published in the online edition of the journal Nature Neuroscience, the researchers carried out experiments on a group of 8 volunteers. They were chosen based on the fact that they felt chills when listening to some passages of their favorite music. To observe brain behaviors, brain scans and MRIs were performed on the participants while they listened to certain pleasant and neutral musical passages. Dopamine The tomography scans showed that when listening to their favorite music, the volunteers’ brains pumped more dopamine into the area called the stretched body. While MRIs demonstrated in which parts and moments dopamine releases occurred. Dopamine release was greatest in the stretched body of the brain in the 15 seconds before the moment of maximum pleasure produced by the music. While s at the precise moment it occurred in another part of it. This showed the researchers how the brain also behaves and handles when anticipating the most pleasant musical moment. Triggering dopamine release and how it does it at a particular moment. According to Zatorre, this brain behavior is understandable. Since the area linked to anticipation connects with the areas of the brain in charge of predictions and reacting to the environment. Meanwhile, the area of response to the peak musical instant is associated with the limbic system of the brain. This intervenes in emotional stimuli. Only instrumental music was used for this research. A wide variety of this was included. Punk music, classical music and bagpipes. Among the melodies chosen were: “Claro de Luna” by Debussy; the second movement of Beethoven’s “Ninth Symphony” and Barber’s “Adagio for Strings.” While there are previous studies that suggest a relationship between the release of dopamine in the brain and music, this study demonstrates that this is indeed the case. Music has been present in different cultures throughout history. It can be used to manipulate moods in rituals, political campaigns, in advertising and marketing to increase sales. Let’s listen to more music Modern society considers music in two senses. As an art form and as a commercial product. There are those who believe that music should be considered in a third way. Like a power of universal force.
