title: Music biology: all this useful beauty.
abstract: Some healthy people fail to derive pleasure from music despite otherwise preserved perceptual and reward responses. Such 'musical anhedonia' implies the existence of music-specific brain reward mechanisms, which could provide a substrate for music to acquire biological value.
authors.affiliation: Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, 8-11 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG, UK. Electronic address: camilla.clark@ucl.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Camilla N
authors.initials: CN
authors.lastname: Clark
authors.affiliation: Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, 8-11 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG, UK. Electronic address: l.downey@ucl.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Laura E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Downey
authors.affiliation: Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, 8-11 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG, UK. Electronic address: jason.warren@ucl.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Jason D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Warren
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D059329:Cholinergic Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D016548:Prosencephalon / Q000502:physiology*; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology*; D014851:Wakefulness / Q000502:physiology*