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Thrilling Music Is Like Food And Sex: More Pleasure and Anticipation Equals More Dopamine

January 11, 2011 by

Experiencing and even anticipating thrilling music releases the neurotransmitter dopamine, a "pleasure" chemical in the brain that is linked to tangible rewards like food, drugs and sex, said scientists from Canada who measured dopamine response to music and found the more "chills" or "frisson" the music elicits, even in the anticipation phase, the more dopamine is released...

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