Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease associated with
cognitive decline. Memory problems are typically among the first signs of cognitive …

Importance Increasing evidence supports the ability of music to broadly promote well-being
and health-related quality of life (HRQOL). However, the magnitude of music's positive …

Groove—defined as the pleasurable urge to move to a rhythm—depends on a fine-tuned
interplay between predictability arising from repetitive rhythmic patterns, and surprise arising …

A remarkable feature of the human brain is its ability to integrate information from the
environment with internally generated content. The integration of top-down and bottom-up …

Music is powerful in conveying emotions and triggering affective brain mechanisms.
Affective brain responses in previous studies were however rather inconsistent, potentially …

Listening to music prompts strong emotional reactions in the listeners but relatively little
research has focused on individual differences. This study addresses the role of musical …

Efforts to integrate music into healthcare systems and wellness practices are accelerating
but the biological foundations supporting these initiatives remain underappreciated. As a …

The COVID-19 pandemic has deeply affected mental health. We assessed which of many
leisure activities had positive psychological effects, with particular attention to music, which …

Music is an important tool for the induction and regulation of emotion. Although learning a
sequential motor behaviour is essential to normal motor function, to our knowledge, the role …

Neurobiological models of emotion focus traditionally on limbic/paralimbic regions as neural
substrates of emotion generation, and insular cortex (in conjunction with isocortical anterior …