Love happens in the brain, where hormonal releases and brain chemicals like dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin are released.

People with musical anhedonia do not enjoy music but still feel the urge to move. Movement itself may generate pleasure.

The pleasurable urge to move to music — to groove — appears to be a physiological response independent of how much we ...

Why music makes us move, even when we don’t like it If you hate ABBA, but you can't help tapping your foot along to “Dancing Queen,” rest assured, it's a perfectly normal reaction. Music makes us move ...

In the 20-40% of OCD patients that are treatment refractory, deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the ventral capsule and ventral striatum (VC/VS) is an effective therapy that achieves significant benefit ...

Previous studies had hinted that dopamine levels in the ventral striatum play a role in insulin sensitivity, and that DBS increases those levels. To find out whether the dopamine changes might ...