Music and the brain

A study conducted at Texas Christian University two years ago found that hymns are one of the most effective means of pastoral care.

And now Scientific American reports that music activates the same parts of the brain as food, sex, and addictive drugs.

Music, it seems, could be one of the most important religious resources for care that takes seriously the communal-contextual model of pastoral theology and pastoral caregiving.

.: Posted by Duane Bidwell on Monday, November 15, 2004

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