… B, There was a significant positive correlation between Gold-MSI scores and the kurtosis
of … C, There was also a significant positive correlation between Gold-MSI scores and the …

Enjoying music reliably ranks among life’s greatest pleasures. Like many hedonic experiences,
it engages several reward-related brain areas, with activity in the nucleus accumbens (…

Mounting evidence links the enjoyment of music to brain areas implicated in emotion and the
dopaminergic reward system. In particular, dopamine release in the ventral striatum seems …

How can music—merely a stream of sounds—be enjoyable for so many people? Recent
accounts of this phenomenon are inspired by predictive coding models, hypothesizing that both …

Background Patients’ comprehension of their medical conditions is fundamental to patient-centered
care. Hospitalizations present opportunities to educate patients but also challenges …

… Willy Dayan gave golden rules of invisalign bio-mechanics to approach treatment planning
with clear aligners. 1. Think like Plastic and Feel like a Tooth: Invisalign is a removable …

Human behavior is inherently multimodal and relies on sensorimotor integration. This is evident
when pianists exhibit activity in motor and premotor cortices, as part of a dorsal pathway, …

Humans can anticipate music and derive pleasure from it. Expectations facilitate the learning
of movements associated with anticipated events, and they are also linked with reward, …

Enjoying music consistently engages key structures of the neural auditory and reward systems
such as the right superior temporal gyrus (R STG) and ventral striatum (VS). Expectations …

Learning, attention and action play a crucial role in determining how stimulus predictions are
formed, stored, and updated. Years-long experience with the specific repertoires of sounds …