Listening to happy tunes helped study participants with motion sickness get over their predisposition and recover better, according to new research.

Motion sickness is a common condition that happens when you’re moving while sitting still, such as riding in a car. It occurs when our eyes, inner ear and body send conflicting messages to the brain, resulting in nausea, headaches, or breaking out in a cold sweat.

Now, Chinese scientists studying ways for improving the condition have published a study in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience showing that playing different types of music may help people recover more effectively.

Using a specially calibrated driving simulator, they induced car sickness in participants and then played different types of music while they tried to recove

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