[Dixielandjazz] Happiness begins here - This is your brain on Music.

[Janie McCue Lynch]

Good article, Steve...thanks.  

I have the books "This is Your Brain on Music," by Daniel Levitin, and also
"Musicophilia," by Oliver Sacks.  Both expand the topic in very readable
fashion. 

Coincidentally, I also just picked up some CEUs on the "Power of Addiction,"
and the description of the findings of the various PET / SPECT scans, as
well as other scanning techniques, is quite fascinating. 

I plan to stick with music for my dopamine fix! 

Janie
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Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Happiness begins here - This is your brain on
Music.

"The first thing they discovered (using ligand-based PET) is that  
music triggers the release of dopamine in both the dorsal and ventral  
striatum. This isn't particularly surprising: these regions have long  
been associated with the response to pleasurable stimuli. It doesn't  
matter if we're having sex or snorting cocaine or listening to Kanye:  
These things fill us with bliss because they tickle these cells.  
Happiness begins here."

If you found the above paragraph interesting,go to the below link for  
the rest of the story of why music affects us.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/01/the-neuroscience-of-music/