A new imaging study showed that listening to favorite music affects the function of the brain's opioid system.

Music can evoke intense pleasure, sometimes experienced physically as pleasant "chills." While the effect of music on ...

Parkinson’s is a progressive neurological condition driven by the loss of dopamine-producing neurons, which causes tremors, ...

Are there areas of the brain, which regulate prosocial, altruistic behavior? Researchers have studied a very special group of patients and established that the 'basolateral amygdala' (part of the ...