Posted by Chairman_MAO on February 11, 2004, at 10:57:56
In reply to I think there's a bit more involved .., posted by scott-d-o on February 9, 2004, at 13:53:32
_All_ neurotransmitters play a role in doing something as complex as appreciating music. To think that we can conceive of something so abstract as music appreciation in terms of this-or-that neurotransmitter is an act of hubris.
To respond to the message, I found that amphetamine and marijuana increased my appreciation of music, and had a synergistic effect when combined together. Well, basically any drug that induces euphoria increases my enjoyment of good music, but really what the drugs are doing is increasing the intensity of experience, period in most cases. As my psychopharm. professor once told me, the best way to cure the munchies from pot is to eat something you dislike intensely.
LSD made music orgasmic (until, at higher doses, it sounded like it was digitally slowed down, but even that was orgasmic). I was also on 400mg of Seroquel for a few months (after too many years of doing too much of the above drugs), and found that it did not decrease my appreciation of music at all.
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