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Neural correlates of the popular music phenomenon: evidence from functional MRI and PET imaging.

RogerBlack

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28083689

On the sillier side.
Blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) fMRI and monoamine receptor PET imaging with 11C-N-methylspiperone (11C-NMSP) were conducted under the popular music Gangnam Style and light music A Comme Amour in healthy subjects. PET and fMRI images were analyzed by using the Statistical Parametric Mapping software (SPM).

RESULTS:
Significantly increased fMRI BOLD signals were found in the bilateral superior temporal cortices, left cerebellum, left putamen and right thalamus cortex. Monoamine receptor availability was increased significantly in the left superior temporal gyrus and left putamen, but decreased in the bilateral superior occipital cortices under the Gangnam Style compared with the light music condition. Significant positive correlation was found between 11C-NMSP binding and fMRI BOLD signals in the left temporal cortex. Furthermore, increased 11C-NMSP binding in the left putamen was positively correlated with the mood arousal level score under the Gangnam Style condition.

CONCLUSION:
Popular music Gangnam Style can arouse pleasure experience and strong emotional response. The left putamen is positively correlated with the mood arousal level score under the Gangnam Style condition. Our results revealed characteristic patterns of brain activity associated with Gangnam Style, and may also provide more general insights into the music-induced emotional processing.
 

barbc56

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How in the world do these "scientists" ever get funding for such trivial matters? Trivial relative to what is really important and beneficial to study in medicine!

Cocaine as well pornography can arouse pleasure but I certainly hope there aren't any studies that delve deeper into these subjects.:D
 
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RogerBlack

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How in the world do these "scientists" ever get funding for such trivial matters? Trivial relative to what is really important and beneficial to study in medicine!

Cocaine as well pornography can arouse pleasure but I certainly hope there aren't any studies that delve deeper into these subjects.:D

The brain has many parts.
Studying only the parts that 'connect' directly to a given known disease can lead to a poorer understanding of the whole system. You need a mix of basic research and applied.

For example, nobody could possibly have realised that studying why a specific salt-loving bacterias behaviour varied under differing salt concentrations in 1989 could have today lead to CRISPR - which is essentially a bacterial 'immune system' and is being used to do genetic editing of human cells to cure several diseases in many clinical trials, and is a vital research technique.

Also, knowing how 'pleasurable excitement' works could be enormously powerful.
Imagine if you could safely stimulate this from a clinical perspective.
It might obviously be very useful for depression, as well as phobias, for example.
 

Forbin

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This reminds me of that research which claimed to have decoded alien signals sent back from outer space. Supposedly, an alien intelligence had captured the Voyager 1 spacecraft (launched on September 5, 1977), which had carried a golden phonograph album entitled "The Sounds Earth."
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The golden album included natural sounds, a French poem, messages from President Carter and the United Nations Secretary General, as well as music spanning everything from classical to Chuck Berry.


The message the aliens supposedly sent back was:

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:)
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/77/77rreview.phtml
 
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