Scientists are learning how music can do more than lift our mood, from easing anxiety to helping experimental drugs reach the brain.
Why it matters: Music could supplement therapy, help people manage pain and anxiety — and someday even boost treatments for brain disease.
State of play: Music has the power to stimulate the body’s reward system, similar to the way that warmth, food and social connection do — and that’s one of the most significant discoveries in neuroscience in the past few decades, according to Daniel Bowling, an assistant professor of psychiatry in the Stanford School of Medicine.
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