ArsTechnica explores the way music intoxicates us – with dopamine:

To learn more about the music/brain/stimulation process, the McGill researchers followed subjects through the ‘chills’ or ‘musical frisson’ response moment. You may have thought that chills were just a subjective concept, but that isn’t the case. They involve a “clear and discrete pattern of autonomic nervous system (ANS) arousal,” the [...]