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Music Makes Us Happy

In case there was any doubt, rock producer turned neuroscientist Daniel Levitin offers some insights.

Among his findings, “Music activates the same parts of the brain and causes the same neurochemical cocktail as a lot of other pleasurable activities like orgasms or eating chocolate…”

This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006 at 9:56 am and is tagged music, reading. Follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed and Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Music Makes Us Happy”

  1. charle Says:
    August 24th, 2006 at 9:07 am

    its a good finding. but of course somewhat limiting…music can also make you dark, giddy, introspective, bewildered,entrapped,nostalgic, perturbed, horny, romantic, housational, etc. you did say, ‘among his findings’, and i didnt even read his article, so my critique is criweak.

  2. neil Says:
    August 24th, 2006 at 10:34 am

    Read the article man.