University of Barcelona /neuro/taxonomy/term/494/all en Lack of joy from music linked to brain disconnection /neuro/channels/news/lack-joy-music-linked-brain-disconnection-264862 <p>Have you ever met someone who just wasn’t into music? They may have a condition called specific musical anhedonia, which affects three-to-five per cent of the population.</p> <p>Researchers at the University of Barcelona and the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital of Æ»¹ûÒùÔº have discovered that people with this condition showed reduced functional connectivity between cortical regions responsible for processing sound and subcortical regions related to reward.</p> Tue, 20 Dec 2016 20:15:07 +0000 shawn.hayward@mcgill.ca 2406 at /neuro