{"id":222401,"date":"2025-09-24T07:16:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/groove-is-in-the-brain-music-supercharges-brain-stimulation"},"modified":"2025-09-24T07:16:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:16:48","slug":"groove-is-in-the-brain-music-supercharges-brain-stimulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/groove-is-in-the-brain-music-supercharges-brain-stimulation","title":{"rendered":"Groove is in the brain: Music supercharges brain stimulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/groove-is-in-the-brain-music-supercharges-brain-stimulation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Music affects us so deeply that it can essentially take control of our brain waves and get our bodies moving. Now, neuroscientists at Stanford\u2019s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute are taking advantage of music\u2019s power to synchronize brain waves to boost the effectiveness of a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), a promising tool for both basic brain research and treating neuropsychiatric disorders.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, institute affiliate Jessica Ross and colleagues used TMS pulses to induce movements in people\u2019s hands\u2014a common testing ground for new ideas in the field. By carefully timing those pulses to music, the team found they could double the impact of TMS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause there\u2019s this really strong connection to movement, music can engage motor pathways in the brain. If you\u2019re listening to a certain kind of rhythm, there are going to be very specific times at which your brain is most ready for the TMS effect,\u201d said Ross, an instructor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford Medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music affects us so deeply that it can essentially take control of our brain waves and get our bodies moving. Now, neuroscientists at Stanford\u2019s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute are taking advantage of music\u2019s power to synchronize brain waves to boost the effectiveness of a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), a promising tool for both [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,42,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-media-arts","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}