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Sounds, such as music and noise, are capable of reliably affecting individuals' moods and emotions, possibly by regulating brain dopamine, a neurotransmitter strongly involved in emotional behavior and mood regulation.
However, the relationship of sound environments with mood and emotions is highly variable across individuals. A putative source of variability is genetic background.
In this regard, a new imaging genetics study directed by Professor Elvira Brattico from Aarhus University and conducted in two Italian hospitals in collaboration with the University of Helsinki (Finland) has provided the first evidence that the effects of music and noise on affective behavior and brain physiology are associated with genetically determined dopamine functionality.
This suggests techies are hard-wired on a genetic level to dislike certain kinds of music.
T. Quarto, et al. Interaction between DRD2 variation and sound environment on mood and emotion-related brain activity. Neuroscience, 2017; 341: 9 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2016.11.010
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 29 2016, @08:41PM
You developed your musical preference during your formative years while you were forming your social identity. By saying that happened in the mid-90s, all you're doing is announcing your age as mid-thirties.
But that is not what Francis said (assuming he was not just once again telling us that he doesn't know):
There was still some interesting stuff to be had into the mid noughties,
Mid-nought-ies, not mid-ninties or mid-naughties, so he is probably 26. Millennial. Explains a lot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 29 2016, @08:55PM
Geezers agree, classic rock is the best.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday December 29 2016, @09:06PM
I'm 31 and I like what came out of the 60s and 70s better than anything later. What's going on here then, reincarnation hangover?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 29 2016, @10:02PM
I reincarnated as a human... Music preferences are the least of my concerns!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 29 2016, @10:19PM
Sounds like you spent your formative years hanging out with the older generation instead of kids your own age. Or your radio was broken and stuck tuned to an oldies station.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @04:52AM
Could be race memory stored in the collective unconscious.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by tisI on Friday December 30 2016, @12:49AM
There is a Monty Python joke in here somewhere,
2 ACs bickering about while defining a particular age group's taste of rap, as music, of only a few years spread,
.. when you lost me at rap and music being used together in any sentence to begin with. Rap is to music what etch-a-sketch is to art.
I've never understood young privileged white boys wanting to relate to the struggles and discrimination against black youths raised in the ghetto.
Finger nails on a blackboard could also be considered music by your definition. Doesn't bother me one bit, but grates the hell out of others.
Honestly though, I'd rather listen to classical "music" as background when I work/program/whatever.
No words to distract. Pleasant melody. Formula for a good day, which supports the articles premise.
"Suppose you were an idiot...and suppose you were a member of Congress...but I repeat myself."