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Music can change mood, have stimulant or sedative effects, and after physiologic process such as heart rate and breathing.

The brain scans highlighted the nucleus accumbens, a deep region of the brain that connects to dopamine neurons and is activated during pleasurable activities. Connections between the nucleus accumbens and other areas of the brain could predict how much a participant was willing to spend on a given song. The article is concluded with a quote from Salimpoor, “Music is an intellectual reward. It’s really an exercise for your whole

Carl Anka from The Independent tells us that studies prove that if you listen to sad or aggressive music often, you my experience higher anxiety. Research was conducted and they tested the neural activity of participants as they tuned in to happy, sad or fearful sounding music. After recording the results, the responses were assessed on several markers of mental health including depression, anxiety and neuroticism. Dr. Suvi Saarikallio, developer of the Music in Mood Regulation (MMR) test, shared, "This style of listening results in the feeling of expression of negative feelings, not necessarily improving the negative mood." With this article, I can show how music serves as a form of therapy to those who are emotionally distressed.

Music causes the brain to become active in the frontal lobe,parietal lobe, temporal lobe and occipital lobe.Music releases a chemical in the brain called dopamine which is found in the pleasure center of your brain. Depending on what is triggering the dopamine, it can motivate a person OR create cravings for sinful pleasures.

Low-pitched music increased the body’s production of antibody IgA and natural killer cells. These cells are important in maintain an effective immune system. Without an adequate supply, the body will be distressed every time it encounters a foreign cell because it will have to make a lot of antibodies in a short amount of time (Drahota, et al., 2012). In addition, music with a slow or medium paced tempo can reduce levels of cortisol more than a fast tempo. Cortisol is a natural stress hormone that, if overproduced, can lead to depression, sleep problems, and heart disease. Also, the rhythm of the music helps reduce anxiety in the patient by lowering the heart rate (Loewy, 2015).

Music is an art that explain the world based on the position of people in it while the way individuals think about sound may vary due to the context independent. Small, Levitin, and Sacks can be pulled together in proving that musical emotions and reactions involve a region that is also responsible for other emotions such as reward systems. Besides, human brain tends to cultivate different hypotheses during the perception of music hence creating a sense of imagination that is also based on creation of world models (Bruner 52). Therefore, music can provide a rewarding effect, improving coordination, and enhancing

Have you ever walked into a room when there was music playing while you were in a bad mood or an emotional frame of mind, only to find yourself humming or singing along to the music that was playing? Music affects the way we feel, and it can alter the current state of our emotional well-being just by listening to it. Often, in everyday life, people overlook the importance that sounds make in our lives. With all of the issues and tasks that an individual tries to complete during their busy day, it’s no wonder that we often do not take the time to examine something as simple as the sounds that surround us and penetrate our minds, or the affect in which these sounds have on our current emotional state of mind. Music has a peculiar effect on the human mind. Tonal qualities by themselves do not create any extreme mental activity, yet when we combine them together into music, it may create flashbacks of strong memories, making a person feel happy, sad, nostalgic, exited or even angry.

Abstract Traumatic experiences can cause sever anxiety and affective disorders in those that are affected. PTSD, or Post-traumatic stress disorder is such a disorder. This disorder is characterized by over sensitized arousal, hyper-vigilance, or exaggerated startle response. (Clark, 1997, pp. 27) This disorder can create problems with feeling and expressing normal emotions, and controlling anger and anxiety. Music therapy can help those affected with PTSD and other anxiety disorders by helping them to create useful, healthy habits, and to express emotions in a safe way. Since music communicates deep emotions in various areas of the brain, including the hippocampus, it will be seen that music therapy is an effective tool in helping those with anxiety disorders to feel more normalized. (Koelsch, 2010, pp. 313)

It is no secret that music has a strange way of reaching people who were previously thought to be too far gone. Music has the capability to connect to individuals and touch them in a way that causes them to have some strange reactions (Warner et al, 35-36). These reactions aren’t fully understood but have the possibility to lead to great medical advancements. While some psychologists, and parents are strong believers in the helpful effects of music on people’s mental health, others see the dangers that come with music’s great influence and think it could be used as a dangerous tool against individuals.

Music is an aspect of our day-to-day lives. We listen to it either on the radio while getting ready for work, through the iPod while working out, at the restaurant or at a weekend party. It has the power to evoke different emotions, whether sad or happy, depending on the type that we listen to.

Our emotional response to music is very individual. Not all 'happy' songs are universally perceived as being uplifting or are guaranteed to put you in a good mood all the time. Neuroscientists have found that music enters our nervous system through the auditory brainstem and also causes the cerebellum to 'light up' on a brain scan. Music and mood are inherently linked. Scientists continue to uncover how these influences occur at a neural level. Studies prove that the music we listen to engages a wide range of neurobiological systems that affect our psychology.

The impact of music on positive psychology and emotion is a well known fact. Music has an extraordinary ability to change people’s emotions. In humans, music has the ability to invoke emotions of sadness, happiness and even fear (Goycoolea, Levy & Ramirez, 2013). The ability of music to alter human mood makes it one of the greatest subjects of positive psychology. Seligman (2011) argued that even though a lot of effort has been spent on psychotherapy and pharmacology, such interventions are not

Listening to music usually positively affects one’s emotions for music can change a mood to a more enlightened state of mind. However, the brain is very efficient at processing music

Thesis: Music is a unique form of sound powerful enough to manipulate mood, feelings, and cognition.

Music elicits an emotional and cognitive response in all who listen to it. It is powerful at the individual level because “it can induce multiple responses – physiological, movement, mood, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral” (Francis, 2008,