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BETTER THAN SEX

esearchers at McGill University in Montreal have proved what audiophiles have known all along: listening to music is better than having sex. OK, so I’ve tweaked that introduction just a little, because what Dr. Robert Zatorre, neuroscientist at The Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, at McGill University, actually discovered was that: “the pleasurable experience of listening to music releases dopamine, a neurotransmitter are one key to the reason why music, which has no obvious survival value, is so significant across all human societies.

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