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Music and Neural Issues

“The chanting of the lone syllable even helps control pulse, and blood pressure, relieves stress, and controls the hypothalamus, pituitary gland, endocrine and the nervous system.” Continuous activity in a brain area called nucleus accumbens decides whether or not a human is willing to listen any song in particular. For instance, villagers are inclined and interested in listening to their regional folklore and can enjoy themselves if played repeatedly; thus, it’s irrelevant to heal them through jazz/rock. According to a research, another brain area called the superior temporal gyrus is intimately involved in the experience of music. The genres of music that a person listens to over a lifetime impact how the superior temporal gyrus is formed. Researchers have also gauged how music affects entire body functionalities such as speech, hearing, memory etc..  “Neurological methods were adopted to measure subcortical and cortical responses to speech in the brains of two groups of ad