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How much do you really know about music's influence on your brain?

How much do you really know about music's influence on your brain?

The Power Of Music

Listen to this for at least 30 seconds and see how you feel

Whether you can perceive its or not, music will always affect your mood. Studies have shown that dopamine (a neurotransmitter related to reward and motivation) is released when someone listens to music they enjoy. Music that is not enjoyed can cause frustration or annoyance.

Music = emotions

Can music affect your mood?

Skip to roughly 0:40 and think about how it could influence your workout. This song is 140 BPM (beats per minute)

This image displays the BPM (beats per minute) of various genres and connects them with a level of exercise in which they would help form a motivating rhythm matching your heart rate.

BPM = "Beats" per minute...the music is not the only thing beating...[Hint: the other thing is your heart]

Do different tempos support different types of exercise?

No explanation needed for this one. Enjoy.

Through tests in several studies, music has allowed people to accurately identify specific information from past events. While these tests were set up, it is widely understood that songs are more than capable of triggering memories, whether they are good or bad.

Of course they do! Well that's if you've heard YMCA but I mean who hasn't...

Are certain songs capable of triggering vivid memories?

Music therapy helps support the improvement of one's condition (behaviors, actions, thoughts) after various events such as a traumatic brain injury, emotional tragedy, disease and many other conditions or events.

Studies have proven that music therapy is extremely effective for some patients and not really effective for others. When it is effective, it works best along with traditional therapy and rehab methods.

Results vary for each patient

Is music therapy effective?

Give that a short listen. Music has clearly evolved since this (1788), and so have humans. Is there a connection?

Aside from music's creative power, it is one of the very few things that is truly universal. Music is a language and it is constantly changing and infinitely dynamic, and its connection to our brain is one of the most fascinating phenomena. Imagine the entire history of mankind without any music, that is an extremely disturbing idea. Luckily, it is an idea and not a reality.

Yes, yes it is. And yes, Darwin is jamming to the "evolution" of music.

Is music a vital part of our species?

"Don't worry about a thing, 
'Cause every little thing gonna be alright." -Bob Marley

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