What's going on in our brains when we experience nostalgia?

A Martinez

December 22, 2023 / 2:00 am

What's going on in our brains and bodies when we experience waves of nostalgia in the holiday season? We talk to musician and neuroscientist Daniel Levitin about the medicine of music.

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