Mantione Mariska, Figee Martijn, Denys Damiaan
Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, an Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Front Behav Neurosci. 2014 May 6;8:152. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00152. eCollection 2014.
Music is among all cultures an important part of the live of most people. Music has psychological benefits and may generate strong emotional and physiological responses. Recently, neuroscientists have discovered that music influences the reward circuit of the nucleus accumbens (NAcc), even when no explicit reward is present. In this clinical case study, we describe a 60-year old patient who developed a sudden and distinct musical preference for Johnny Cash following deep brain stimulation (DBS) targeted at the NAcc. This case report substantiates the assumption that the NAcc is involved in musical preference, based on the observation of direct stimulation of the accumbens with DBS. It also shows that accumbens DBS can change musical preference without habituation of its rewarding properties.
在所有文化中,音乐都是大多数人生活的重要组成部分。音乐具有心理益处,可能会引发强烈的情感和生理反应。最近,神经科学家发现,即使没有明确的奖励,音乐也会影响伏隔核(NAcc)的奖赏回路。在本临床病例研究中,我们描述了一名60岁的患者,在针对NAcc进行深部脑刺激(DBS)后,突然对约翰尼·卡什产生了独特的音乐偏好。本病例报告基于对DBS直接刺激伏隔核的观察,证实了NAcc参与音乐偏好的假设。它还表明,伏隔核DBS可以改变音乐偏好,而不会使其奖赏特性产生习惯化。