What’s your favorite song to cry to? Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin jo...

When you're sad and you listen to sad music, your brain releases a neurochemical called prolactin, which is a soothing, tranquilizing hormone, the same one released between mothers and infants during nursing. Your brain produces its own opiates, not the kind you take in a pill. Well, basically the kind you take in a pill, but they're endogenous, internally generated, and that's an analgesic. It helps relieve pain and lift your mood at the same time when you listen to music you like. And what, you know, a lot of people wonder, well, what kind of music is the most healthful? And it doesn't matter the genre, it just matters that you like it. You can't say that Bach is better than Babyface. It matters what you need. Yes.