High intensity rhythms activate the brain’s reward network, including the ventral striatum and prefrontal cortex, promoting dopamine release and emotional regulation. Rather than increasing distress, preferred aggressive or energetic music can help process negative emotions and reduce cortisol responses, producing a sense of control and psychological relief. Source: Blood, Anne J., and Robert J. Zatorre. “Intensely Pleasurable Responses to Music Correlate with Activity in Brain Regions Implicated in Reward and Emotion.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 98, no. 20, 2001, pp. 11818–11823. Want more interesting content like this ? Follow gravitonomy :) #linkinpark #rockmusic #science #neuroscience #stress