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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: Tales of Weird RockānāRoll Sex
Description: If thereās an official mission statement for the kind of music we all love, itās āsex, drugs, and rockānārollā ā¦these are the three main food groups in this worldā¦
All three of these things affect the same portions of the brain:Ā Ā the amygdala, the nucleus accumbens, and the cerebellumā¦. All of them are involved in the secretion and regulation of dopamine, the āfeel-goodā hormoneā¦Ā
Dopamine is a very addictive hormoneā¦whenever our brains squirt it out, the body goes āthis is good!Ā Ā I want more!ā ā¦it happens when we hear a great songā¦.it happens with certain d...