How does music affect your brain?

I'm wondering... Does it in any way deplete levels of dopamine or serotonine?

What i sometimes notice, but this also depends on my mood, is that listening to music actively at first feels good, but as time passes it starts to feel uninteresting, and when i'm jogging/sporting with music it often even causes a headache.

When you're listening to music, and you're really enjoying the music, will you feel slightly worse than you usually would some time after you've stopped listening to music? Or will it make you enjoy (the same) music less a day later or so? Or is music at that point only positive with no possible drawbacks of it?

When that's the case, If you prefer listening music over anything else all day long, you wouldn't have any reason to stop listening it then, right?

Just speculating.

I generally enjoy music but have certain songs (quite a few) that trigger my depression, due to bad associations to the music.

After not listening to music for like over an hour, I start feeling almost anxious for it back. Like at school, when I forget my iPod or headphones the very first thing I do when I get back home is to start listening to it for hours. When I find out I can listen to music in class and don't have my music, I get really upset. I listen to music whenever I can, whether it be for just 5 minutes or for hours on hours. I think my record is listening to music for eight hours. I keep going until I run out of music to listen to or I finally feel like I'm just not in the mood, which is rarely ever.

I get really irritated when people interrupt me while I'm listening to music. When I'm not listening to it, I constantly hear songs play over and over in my head and I have to tap it out and hum it and it's absolutely awful. Music kind of dictates my life anymore.

There are a couple of really interesting books on this subject. "This is your Brain on Music", and "The World in 6 Songs" both by Dr Daniel Levitin out of McGill university. The writing isn't the best, even though the books are aimed at a non academic audience, but they're really interesting.

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PEOPLE listen to music, ie a release , to be happy, to drown out sorrow, for the love of the person singing, to lift your mood, even to commit suicide , ect ect

I tend to listen to music when I'm walking around outside just to shut my head up
If I'm feeling anxious to the point of nausea and sickness though, I just can't listen to music. It makes me feel worse and odd as it sounds, it can sometimes trigger a feeling of sickness if I listen to the song again when I'm fine. Like my mind's connected the two things together.
I can listen to music for hours though when I'm dog walking. If not my mind will wander and I think things I don't want to think about so music's good.

Listening to music usually calms me down. But the sad and depressing songs I try to avoid. When I am hallucinating and stuff I listen to Scooter or Ferry Corsten (electronic) The beat usually allows my brain to syncronized with the music and sometimes stops or slows down the halluciantions.

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i think it would probably depend on the music as to whether it elevated or depressed your mood. here's a cool infographic i recently saw on the psychology of music.

some music is so perfect you are left in a better mood like this lady he voice comes from within a tiny frame yet so powerful it always uplifting. and I am not a massive fan of this kind of music but some things just seem right. A angel released from a tiny shell .

I listen to music that consist of Binaural Beats,Isochronic Tones etc., These sounds use frequencies of different variations to assist you to create a sense of well being. It has help me tremendiously. It helps me feel better, remove negative thoughts, relax, clearer thinking, sleep,create calmness etc. So to answer your question yes music has properties that can change you mentally but temporarily.

This is my observation as a student, I am not a doctor but sharing my experiences.

Did you know the popular term for music playing in your head constantly id 'earworms'. Stress makes mine worse. The song Feliz Navidad has been playing in my head nearly all day and the thing that triggered it was a sign on the wall that said that. It can be very annoying and it's common in musically inclined people such as musicians. (Though this is not the case with me.)