Listening to classical music modulates genes that are responsible for brain functions

[Panich52]

Listening to classical music modulates genes that are responsible for brain functions

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sciencedaily/strange_science/~3/kq8TXNH020c/150313083410.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

Although listening to music is common in all societies, the biological determinants of listening to music are largely unknown. According to a new study, listening to classical music enhanced the activity of genes involved in dopamine secretion and transport, synaptic neurotransmission, learning and memory, and down-regulated the genes mediating neurodegeneration. Several of the up-regulated genes were known to be responsible for song learning and singing in songbirds, suggesting a common evolutionary background of sound perception across species.

[immoderate]

1. Does Duke Ellington count?

--imm

[enough]

2. Yes. (nt)

[valerief]

8. That was my first thought--what about jazz? nt

[Javaman]

13. It better! :) nt

[elleng]

3. Good, 'cause this is always with me!

http://www.weta.org/listen-live

[4139]

4. Tchaikovsky, Pathétique, movement 3

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[Ilsa]

11. That's been one of many favorites.

It tickles my brain almost as well as the Allegro movement from Prokofiev's 3rd piano concerto.

[4139]

12. The 3rd movement of pathetique reminds of robin hood

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1uwuil_the-adventures-of-robin-hood-1938-full-movie_shortfilms

[Mojorabbit]

5. I would love to know if this across the spectrum or

just classical. How about Blues? I can listen to blues all day long but not classical. I feel myself winding up into a knot after a half hour or so of classical.

[Trillo]

7. Interesting that music style roughly correlates to the Industrial Revolution.

The first one and the second one.

[awoke_in_2003]

9. Even Jimmy Page agrees

[Manifestor_of_Light]

10. I'd say classical and jazz both.

Classical and jazz are the only two complex forms of music.

I say this because classical players who get bored go into jazz, which is complex enough to interest them.

Examples: Jean Luc Ponty(graduate of the Paris Conservatory in violin), Rick Wakeman, Andy Summers.

[0rganism]

14. "Classical music" is a HUGE genre

the article notes that participants were listening specifically to Mozart's violin concert #3 in G-major, which is considered "high classical" and thus consistent with the summary statement, but it's not clear to me where the benefits start and stop. One might suppose Beethoven and Haydn to be included, but what about the music of Chopin? Does J.S. Bach's music have the same effect? Debussy? Ravel? Gershwin? Early madrigals? What about Schoenberg and the Vienna school 12 tone music?

Is the benefit cross-cultural? Will individuals respond equally across cultural, social, and even individual boundaries? Would a metalhead receive the same benefits from listening to Slayer as Mozart?

Are the benefits unique to Mozart's violin concert #3 in G-major? Perhaps this piece is particularly resonant in a way that other music, classical and otherwise is not. Has this been established?