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Musical anhedonia is a neurological condition characterized by an inability to derive pleasure from music. People with this condition, unlike those suffering from music agnosia, can recognize and understand music but fail to enjoy it.

Acquired music agnosia is the "inability to recognize music in the absence of sensory, intellectual, verbal, and mnesic impairments". Music agnosia is most commonly acquired; in most cases it is a result of bilateral infarction of the right temporal lobes.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Germany found that musically active people have, on average, a higher genetic risk for depression and bipolar disorder.

This work also suggests a causal role of dopamine in musical pleasure, such that increasing dopamine leads to increased musical pleasure, and decreasing dopamine leads to musical anhedonia.

The most common injury type suffered by musicians is repetitive strain injury (RSI). A survey of orchestral performers found that 64–76% had significant RSIs. Other types of musculoskeletal disorders, such as carpal tunnel syndrome and focal dystonia, are also common. psychological issues such as performance anxiety.

Research shows music therapy can offer benefits to people with:

• Dementia.
• Traumatic brain injuries.
• Stroke.
• Parkinson's disease.
• Cancer.
• Autism spectrum disorder.
• Mood disorders.
• Anxiety disorders.

Smell (olfactory agnosia) Touch (somatosensory agnosia) Sight (visual agnosia)

For example, some people with visual agnosia find it difficult to recognise faces (face blindness), colours (colour agnosia) or words (agnostic alexia). It is also possible to have agnosia that affects your ability to recognise smells (olfactory agnosia) or taste (gustatory agnosia).

Adele and Alanis Morissette, for example, have shared their experiences with postpartum depression. Billie Eilish has opened up about how fame led to depression and suicidal ideation, while Bebe Rexha and Halsey have shared their bioplar disorder diagnoses.

Anhedonia refers to the loss of ability to feel pleasure and is a common symptom of depressive disorders and substance use disorder.

In fact, there's nothing inherently wrong with musical anhedonics; their indifference to music isn't a source of depression or suffering of any kind, although Sheridan notes, “The only suffering is being mocked by other people, because they don't understand it.

Some experts, such as Johns Hopkins University psychiatry professor Kay Redfield Jamison, find strong evidence that mood disorders, such as depression and bipolarism, are more prevalent among artists and writers than in the general population.