Bill Weiss
Person who lives with specific musical anhedonia and shares a first-person account of not deriving pleasure from music, describing its social and personal impacts.
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Mar 30, 2026 • 25min
No joy: when music falls flat for people
Robert Zatorre, a McGill cognitive neuroscientist who studies how music triggers reward, and Bill Weiss, who lives with specific musical anhedonia and feels no pleasure from songs. They describe what it is like to not be moved by music. Conversations cover the brain wiring behind musical reward, survey and scan findings, heritability, and how people find pleasure in other ways.
