Neuroscience of Music Touching Your Soul

Crazy findings from the latest scientific research (MRI studies) about how music affects your brain. I'm currently completing a PhD in Imaging Neuroscience at KCL 🧠.
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Dopamine released from music: www.nature.com...
Music and dopamine drugs: www.pnas.org/d...
Beethoven and Eminem: www.ncbi.nlm.n...
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[@bradleycollings8176]

Good video, the visuals and editing are well done too.

[@ZacharyCortex]

Thanks Bradley!

[@shexec32]

Much more of a fan of the connectomist theory from the third paper.
One note about the second paper: the experiment only established dopamine as an important link in the chain of processes that create the hedonistic pleasure experienced from music, not necessarily the cause.
The dopamine - pleasure association could still be correlational; both might be driven by a 3rd underlying process, which happens to utilise dopamine as an intermediary messenger.
Still, that experiment is an impressive result, and has given me much to think about regarding dopamine and pleasure.

[@ZacharyCortex]

Hey! Thanks for the comment! Yeh I appreciate that is a subtle distinction actually in the second paper so thank you very much for pointing it out! Dopamine release is necessitated by the hedonistic pleasure experience. It seems certain there will be something else driving this as cannot happen spontaneously. This is exactly why I post the papers I am talking about so people like yourself can go and read about them in more depth! :) The connection stuff underlying pleasurable music experiences is soo interesting and very complicated😅, they take a lot of time for me to read. An issue with those studies though is the studies are done on small groups and are peer-reviewed, but are seldom repeated to the same results. The science is ongoing......

[@judyhc7148]

So interesting to learn about this and the studies are amazing. Never knew they existed. Where did you find them?

[@ZacharyCortex]

Thanks Judy! I find them on Pubmed where all scientific research papers can be found and I also post the links to the specific studies I speak about in the description!

[@Maryfs1]

Interesting stuff.

[@ZacharyCortex]

Thanks Matt!

[@danielberkley3771]

4 thoughts
1) another excellent video. Interesting topic
2) disappointed with the shirt choice. The collar was all over the place.
3) Eminem never released a song called '8 mile'.
4) do you think the idea that the auditory cortex becomes disconnected from the hippocampus when we hear music we love (sort of dedicating more activity to memories and therefore emotions associated with that music) would be similarly applicable to other sensory experiences, like eating food from our childhood for example?

[@ZacharyCortex]

Hey Berko!
1) Thank you very much, much appreciated!
2) I will take on your feedback though I have had very positive messages about the shirt choice! Will try to fix the collar for the next one
3) My bad, 'lose yourself'.....you did know what i meant though but right you are, science is a precise art
4) This is a truly excellent question and I would say the answer is definitely maybe! Eating things in fMRI is tricky as the movement causes very large artefacts in the data - though i would imagine the rewarding circuitry has lots of similarities in its function!
My best,
Zac