Clinical Research Paper Database
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The Neuroscience of Emotion Elicitation by Music
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At the intersection of music and neuroscience, the auditory system plays a critical role in human responses. Initial reception of music stimuli is followed by auditory processing, allowing people to perceive, interpret, analyze, and understand these sounds. This article will review the main sta...
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Interactive Music Therapy as a Treatment for Preoperative Anxiety in Children
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In this study, we examined whether interactive music therapy is an effective treatment for preinduction anxiety. Children undergoing outpatient surgery were randomized to 3 groups: interactive music therapy (n = 51), oral midazolam (n = 34), or control (n = 38). The primary out- come of the s...
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The challenges and benefits of a genuine partnership between Music Therapy and Neuroscience: a dialog between scientist and therapist
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Collaborations between neuroscience and music therapy promise many mutual benefits given the different knowledge bases, experiences and specialist skills possessed by each discipline. Primarily, music therapists deliver music-based interventions on a daily basis with numerous populations; neuro...
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Music: The Journey from Neural Entertainment to Therapy
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Music has been intricately linked to humanity since times immemorial. Initially believed to be a pleasurable activity, there has been a paradigm shift in understanding of this mysterious entity. During ancient times music was thought to enhance ones physical, mental, spiritual and social health...
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The Science and Psychology Behind Music and Emotion
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Music has been used for thousands of years as a means of emotional expression. The goals of this paper are to (a) review current literature on how music induces emotion (b) explore the mechanisms of how this happens both physiologically and psychologically and (c) to look at the role of desire...
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Banging the drum: evolutionary and cultural origins of music and its implications for psychiatry
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There is growing interest in music-based therapies for mental/ behavioural disorders. We begin by reviewing the evolutionary and cultural origins of music, proceeding then to discuss the principles of evolutionary psychiatry, itself a growing a field, and how it may apply to music. Finally we o...
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Neuroplasticity and Functional Recovery: Training Models and Compensatory Strategies in Music Therapy
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This text provides an overview of a growing concept related to recovery known as neuroplasticity, and how specific training models in music therapy utilize this relatively recently identified phenomenon. Also, a framework will be provided to help guide the practicing clinician when attempting ...
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Retraining of drug reward, music cues and state-dependent recall in music therapy
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Brain research revealed that pleasant music appreciation is processed in same brain reward areas as euphoriant drugs. This indicates a similarity in processing intensity of emotions in the brain. These insights shed a new light on how music and emotion are linked in the brain. However, patient...
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Addendum to ‘Efficacy of music therapy treatment based on cycles of sessions: A randomised controlled trial’
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The aim of this paper is to provide further detail about the results of a randomised controlled study published in this journal (Raglio et al., 2010, 14, 900–904), in which we assessed the efficacy of music therapy (MT) on the behavioural disturbances in people with moderate-severe dementia.
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Music Therapy: An Intervention in Alzheimer’s Disease
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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a worldwide epidemic. Multiple domains including memory, cognitive abilities, language, behaviour, and emotions are affected, resulting in significant disability and distress both for patients and caregivers. The management of patients with Alzheimer’s disease is a si...
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Music facilitate the neurogenesis, regeneration and repair of neurons
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We propose that listening to music facilitates the neurogenesis, the regeneration and repair of cerebral nerves by adjusting the secretion of steroid hormones, ultimately leading to cerebral plasticity. Music affects levels of such steroids as cortisol (C), testosterone (T) and estrogen (E), an...
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Healing power of music
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No doubt music is a wonderful hobby. It makes your free time leisure both pleasurable and profitable. And these benefit can be enjoyed not only by you also by those around you. Hobbies provide a welcome escape from routine. Even if we are content and happy with our present studies or jobs a ho...
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