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Several times to move to the music even further than the happy moments, or seek the comfort of music when melancholy strikes?

Music affects us all. But only in recent times scientists tried to explain and quantify the way music affects us on an emotional level. Investigated the relationship between singing and mind shows that listening to and playing music really changes how our brain, and therefore our body functions.

It seems that the healing power of music, body and soul, it's just beginning to be understood, even music therapy is not new. For years therapists who promote the use of music - both listening and learning - for gay and reduce stress, relieve pain. And music has also been recommended as an aid for positive change in mood and emotional state.

Michael DeBakey, who in 1966 became the first surgeon to successfully implant an artificial heart, is on record saying. "Creating and performing music promotes self-expression and self-rewards while giving pleasure to others In medicine, increasing published reports demonstrate that music has a healing effect on patients. "

Doctors now believe using music therapy in hospitals and nursing homes not only makes people feel better, but also makes them heal faster. And across the country, medical experts began to implement a new revelation about the effects of brain music for medicine patients.

In one study, researcher Michael Thaut and his team detailed how victims of stroke, cerebral palsy and Parkinson's disease who worked to music took bigger steps more balanced than those who have no therapeutic accompaniment.

Other researchers have found a drum sound can affect how the body works. Quoted in a 2001 article in USA Today, Suzanne Hasner, the head of the music therapy department at Berklee College of Music in Boston, said even those with dementia or head injuries retain musical ability.

This article reports the results of an experiment in which researchers from the Mind-Body Wellness Center in Meadville, Pa.., Tracked 111 cancer patients who played drums for 30 minutes a day. They found strengthened immune system and increased levels of cancer-fighting cells in many patients.

"Deep in our long-term memory is read out of this music," Hasner said. "It is processed into the emotional side of the brain, the amygdala. This is where you remember the music played at your wedding, your first love of music, first dance. This sort of thing can still be remembered even in people on the disease progresses. It may be a window, a way to reach them ... "

American Music Therapy Organization claims music therapy may allow for "emotional intimacy with the family and caregivers, relaxation for the whole family, and spent significant time together in a positive and creative way."

Scientists are making progress in the exploration of why music should be this effect. In 2001 Dr. Anne Blood and Robert Zatorre of McGill University in Montreal, used positron emission tomography, or a pet scan, to determine whether specific brain structures that are stimulated by music.

In their study, Blood and Zatorre asked 10 musicians, five men and five women, to choose stirring music. The subjects were then given as a pet scan they listened to four types of audio stimuli - the selected music, other music, general noise or silence. Each sequence was repeated three times in random order.

Blood said that when the subjects heard the music that gave them "chills," PET scans detected activity in the brain that are also stimulated by food and sex.

Just why humans developed such as biologically-based music appreciation remains unclear. Food appreciation and encouragement for sex to help develop the safety of the species, but "music did not develop strictly for survival purposes," the Associated Press Blood at the time.

He also argues that because the active musical part of the brain that makes us happy, this suggests that our physical and mental benefits.

This is good news for patients who undergo surgery experience with gay hopes method.

Polish researcher, Zbigniew Kucharski, at the Warsaw Academy of Medicine, studied the effects of sound therapy for fear management in dental patients. During the period from October 2001 until May 2002, 38 dental patients aged between 16 and 60 years followed. The patients received variations of sound therapy, a practice in which the music is received by the headphones and also vibrators.

Dr Kucharski discovered the negative feelings decreased five-fold for patients who received 30 minutes of sound therapy both before and after their dental procedure. For the group to hear and feel the music just before the operation, feeling nervous to be reduced by a factor of 1.6 only.

For the last group (control) only received voice therapy during the operation, without changing the level of fear felt.

A 1992 study identified music listening and relaxation instruction as an effective way to reduce pain and anxiety in women undergoing painful gynecological procedures. And other studies have shown music can reduce other 'negative' human emotions such as fear, anxiety and depression.

Sheri Robb and a team of researchers published a report in the Journal of Music Therapy in 1992, outlining their findings that music assisted relaxation procedures (music listening, deep breathing and other exercises) effectively reduces the gays in surgical patients in the pediatric burn unit.

"Music," says Esther Mok in the AORN Journal in February 2003, "is a tool, a non-warned, easy to operate non-invasive, and inexpensive way to calm preoperative gay."

So far, according to the same report, researchers can not be precisely why the music has a calming effect on medical patients. One school of thought believes that music can reduce stress because it can help patients to relax and also lowers blood pressure. Another researcher claims music allows the body's vibrations to synchronize the rhythm of the surrounding. For example, if an anxious patient with a racing heartbeat listening to slow music, your heart rate will slow down and synchronize the rhythm of music.

This result is still a mystery. Incredible ability that music has to affect and manipulate emotions and the brain is undeniable, but most are still mysterious.

Regardless of the activity of the brain, music affects the level of hormones in the human body can also be measured, and certainly there is evidence that music can lower levels of cortisol in the body (associated with arousal and stress), and increased levels of melatonin (which can induce sleep). It can also trigger the release of endorphins, natural painkillers of the body.

But what about the music succeeded in driving emotions in us? And why is the feeling that is often so strong? The simple answer is that nobody knows ... more. Now we can measure some of the emotional responses caused by music, but we can not explain it. But that's OK. I do not understand electricity to benefit from the light when I turn on the lights when I came into the room, and I do not understand why music can make me feel better emotionally. This is only our Creator made us that way.