Sound—including music and noise—can relieve pain in humans, but the underlying neural
mechanisms remain unknown. We discovered that analgesic effects of sound depended on …

[illus. 1] Music stirs the soul. Mozart's< pres: italics> Requiem</pres: italics> has moved
listeners for centuries. And today's masters of popular culture have made a fine art of using …

Acute pain is protective and a cardinal feature of inflammation. Chronic pain after arthritis,
nerve injury, cancer, and chemotherapy is associated with chronic neuroinflammation, a …

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The oldest known method for relieving pain is music, and yet, to date, the underlying neural
mechanisms have not been studied. Here, we investigate these neural mechanisms by …

Multiple parallel neural pathways link sound-related signals to behavioral responses. For
instance, the striatum, a brain structure involved in action selection and reward-related …

Brain changes in response to nerve damage or cochlear trauma can generate pathological
neural activity that is believed to be responsible for many types of chronic pain and tinnitus …

In this article, we consider music and noise in terms of vibrational and transferable energy as
well as from the evolutionary significance of the hearing system of Homo sapiens. Music and …

The use of music as a means of inducing positive emotions and subsequent relaxation has
been studied extensively by researchers. A great deal of this research has centered on the …

Tinnitus, sound perception in the absence of physical stimuli, occurs in 15% of the
population and is the top-reported disability for soldiers after combat. Noise overexposure is …