Pleasurable music activates cerebral µ-opioid receptors: a combined PET-fMRI study - Putkinen, Vesa; Seppälä, Kerttu; Harju, Harri; Hirvonen, Jussi; Karlsson, Henry K.; Nummenmaa, Lauri (European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, 2025)
Keywords: Adult; Agonists; Binding; Brain - diagnostic imaging; Brain - metabolism; Brain - physiology; Cardiology; Chills; Emotions; Experiments; Female; Fentanyl - analogs & derivatives; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Headphones; Heart rate; Hemodynamic responses; Hemodynamics; Humans; Hypotheses; Imaging; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Medical imaging; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Multimodal Imaging; Music; Narcotics; Neostriatum; Neuroimaging; Nuclear Medicine; Nucleus accumbens; Oncology; Opioid receptors; Original; Original Article; Orthopedics; Pleasure; Positron emission; Positron emission tomography; Prefrontal cortex; Radiology; Receptors; Receptors, Opioid, mu - metabolism; Reinforcement; Sensorimotor system; Young Adult; Pleasure; MOR; fMRI; Music; Endogenous Opioids; PET