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Do dopaminergic gene polymorphisms affect mesolimbic reward activation of music listening response? Therapeutic impact on Reward Deficiency Syndrome (RDS).
Medical hypotheses - 1 Mar 2010
Blum Kenneth, Chen Thomas J H, Chen Amanda L H, Madigan Margaret, Downs B William, Waite Roger L, Braverman Eric R, Kerner Mallory, Bowirrat Abdalla, Giordano John, Henshaw Harry, Gold Mark S
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Using fMRI, Menon and Levitin [9] clearly found for the first time that listening to music strongly modulates activity in a network of mesolimbic structures involved in reward processing including the nucleus accumbens (NAc) and the ventral tegmental area (VTA), as well as the hypothalamus, and insula, which are thought to be involved in regulating autonomic and physiological responses to rewarding and emotional...
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