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INDIA TODAY | Lack of interest in music linked to brain disconnection
Have you ever met someone who just wasn't into music? They may have a condition called specific musical anhedonia, which affects three-to-five percent of the population, found a study.
Using the fMRI data, the researchers found that while listening to music, specific musical anhedonics presented a reduction in the activity of the Nucleus Accumbens, a key subcortical structure of the reward network.
"These findings not only help us to understand individual variability in the way the reward system functions, but also can be applied to the development of therapies for the treatment of reward-related disorders, including apathy, depression, and addiction," said Robert Zatorre, an MNI neuroscientist and one of the paper's co-authors.
