As we could see more of the area of the prefrontal cortex which is associated with effortful planning and conscious self-monitoring is less active, it appears to be really shut down in these moments of high creativity like letting go of this conscious self-censor...

Whether you find listening to music so pleasurable that you get chills or you absolutely despise a song it can produce absolutely fascinating effects in the brain.

According to Levian, musical enjoyment triggers the brain's internal opioid system & just like the opioid syst...

What we know about the brain is that the left hemisphere controls language and there are many other parts of the brain that have music access. 

Music Therapist, Meghan Morrow says sometimes she compares it to being in traffic and one can't move any further but one might need to exit so they...

Life without music is inconceivable for me. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. I get the most joy in life out of music. ~ Eistein

Drop your favorite musician's name and tell us how they helped you and what position they hold in ...

It wakes us up and motivates our workouts to keep us company on our commutes.

Doesn't matter what kind of music it is the music itself has the ability to affect our moods and our bodies in all sorts of ways.

Music activates every ar...

25 years ago, the idea was that language is on the left side of the brain and music is on the right side of the brain but now that we've got better quality tools higher resolution neuroimaging, and better experimental methods, it is found that music is going on in both halves of ...

A musician, Fantastic Negrito was made to play one of his songs while going through fMRI; the result was the areas that process sensory and motor skills along sounds lit up.

But when he was asked to create something original, the areas that were active before, the ...