Music releases mood-enhancing chemical

Subject: Music releases mood-enhancing chemical
From: mauvepink
Date: 09 Jan 11 - 07:00 PM

Music 'releases mood-enhancing chemical in the brain'

Another study reported by the BBC that shows the benefits of music to all and some of the reasons why

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Subject: RE: Music releases mood-enhancing chemical
From: Dead Horse
Date: 09 Jan 11 - 08:09 PM

No! Really? That is amazing.
How much funding went into that research then?
Money well spent, I'd say.

Subject: RE: Music releases mood-enhancing chemical
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 09 Jan 11 - 09:17 PM

Note that the study says that chemical (dopamine) was realeased when subjects listened to 'music they enjoyed.'

It's important that we not assume that any kind of music will work for anybody. It has to be music one actually enjoys.

Subject: RE: Music releases mood-enhancing chemical
From: GUEST,Grishka
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 06:01 AM

In other words: if we really enjoy something, we really enjoy it. Wonderful science!

Subject: RE: Music releases mood-enhancing chemical
From: GUEST,Jonny Sunshine
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 06:13 AM

I think we probably all knew this, but it's nice to know someone's established how it actually works

Subject: RE: Music releases mood-enhancing chemical
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 08:03 AM

For me, it doesn't just need to be music I enjoy. Being forced to hear music I would normally enjoy, but at a time when I don't want to listen to it, can make me even more upset than being made to listen to music I loathe.
Some music can transport me to another time or place - somewhere I was especially happy - and this effect is diminished or lost altogether by listening to that music somewhere full of other distractions.

Subject: RE: Music releases mood-enhancing chemical
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 11:14 AM

I'm with you, topsie. We shouldn't have music, any kind of music, forced upon us by others.