Articles for tag: Emotions, MusicAndMood, MusicTherapy, psychology, wellbeing

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How Does Music Affect Our Mood?

Suhail Ahmed

  Picture a song that can pull you back to a heartbreak in high school – or another that can drag you out of a bad day in under thirty seconds. Music seems to reach places that words and logic cannot, flipping emotional switches with unnerving speed. For decades, scientists treated this as a kind ...

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Why Music Affects the Brain More Than Any Other Sound

Suhail Ahmed

Sirens jolt us, voices guide us, but a melody can stop time. Neuroscientists have spent decades puzzling over why music, more than speech or noise, takes hold of memory, mood, and movement so completely. The answer is not a single switch in the brain but a braided system – prediction, reward, emotion, and motor circuits ...