How Does Your Brain React to Music? When people listen to music, dopamine is released. Dopamine is a chemical that makes you happy when the brain experiences pleasures like food. Ashford.edu states that "the response is so qu...

As the lights dimmed on stage, a crowd of hands froze in the air. The chests of dozens of students rose and fell in sync with their heavy breathing, exhausted after their performance. For many weeks, all Wylie choirs have been work...