'Chilling' music activates brain's pleasure centers.Byline: ANI Washington, June 14 (ANI): A new study has revealed that listening to 'chilling' music can lead to the activation activation /ac·ti·va·tion/ (ak?ti-va´shun) 1. the act or process of rendering active. 2. the transformation of a proenzyme into an active enzyme by the action of a kinase or another enzyme. 3. of the same reward centres in the brain as drugs such as cocaine. During the study, Canadian researchers used two separate brain imaging tests to examined subjects as they listened alternately to music that gave them chills and music that did not. While using a PET scan PET scan (pĕt) or positron emission tomography (pŏz`ĭtrŏn' ĭmĭsh`ən təmŏg`rəfē) they found that emotionally powerful music that gives us "chills" or "shivers-down-the-spine" leads to a release of dopamine dopamine (dōp`əmēn), one of the intermediate substances in the biosynthesis of epinephrine and norepinephrine. See catecholamine. dopamine One of the catecholamines, widely distributed in the central nervous system. in the reward centres of the brain (mesolimbic striatum striatum /stri·a·tum/ (stri-a´tum) corpus striatum.stria´tal stri·a·tum n. pl. stri·a·ta ). And fMRI scans showed that activation in these regions happens both during the experience of chills and while subjects are anticipating them. They concluded that music, a mere sequence of notes arranged in time, could activate the same reward centres in the brain as drugs such as cocaine. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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