Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Right music, real pleasure

Listen to a song you love gives pleasure, you know, but not only in the mental effect it is physiological and is similar to that given by sex and good food. Or, in extreme cases, from narcotics. To say this is a team of researchers from McGill University in Montreal (Canada). The researchers recruited volunteers and monitored the chemical response of their brain to listen to instrumental music, through positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

And these were the conclusions drawn and published in the journal Nature Neuroscience: the music they love causes the brain to release "dopamine, a neurotransmitter or pleasure. And like most other activities (or substances) that can give satisfaction, listening to songs that you like to change the heartbeat, breathing rate and body temperature even.

Moreover, scholars have found that to enjoy this state of mental well-being is enough to know that you will hear your favorite song: Yes, that is even expected to enable and start the release of dopamine. And when it comes to music that gives pleasure means, Canadian scholars point out, even the instrumental so no need to hear songs sung.

The importanteè notes that it is popular, because more or less revolves around the release of dopamine (personal) rate of appreciation of a particular song.

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