Music listening for people living with dementia: a systematic review.

This review aimed at exploring how music listening-based approach can be effective on physiological, cognitive and behavioural aspects, with specific reference to the domain of dementias. Music listening can be considered one of the most common approaches in dementia care, frequently in combination with other non-pharmacological treatments. This type of intervention may allow persons with dementia to work on the organization and regulation of their emotions thanks to the mediation of the sonorous-musical element.

Feasibility of therapeutic music listening in fibromyalgia: a randomised controlled pilot study.

Background: Fibromyalgia patients can benefit from music approaches as complementary treatments. In the literature, it was shown that these interventions managed pain conditions as well as reduced complaints, increased relaxation, and improved moods.

Objective: This study aimed at evaluating music therapy, in the form of therapeutic music listening, specifically for patients with fibromyalgia, to treat chronic pain by reducing pain perception, increasing well-being, and improving quality of life.

Conventional and Algorithmic Music Listening before Radiotherapy Treatment: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study.

Music listening is a widespread approach in the field of music therapy. In this study, the effects of music listening on anxiety and stress in patients undergoing radiotherapy are investigated. Sixty patients with breast cancer who were candidates for postoperative curative radiotherapy were recruited and randomly assigned to three groups: Melomics-Health (MH) group (music listening algorithmically created, = 20); individualized music listening (IML) group (playlist of preferred music, = 20); no music group ( = 20).

Effects of Algorithmic Music on the Cardiovascular Neural Control.

Music influences many physiological parameters, including some cardiovascular (CV) control indices. The complexity and heterogeneity of musical stimuli, the integrated response within the brain and the limited availability of quantitative methods for non-invasive assessment of the autonomic function are the main reasons for the scarcity of studies about the impact of music on CV control. This study aims to investigate the effects of listening to algorithmic music on the CV regulation of healthy subjects by means of the spectral analysis of heart period, approximated as the time distance between two consecutive R-wave peaks (RR), and systolic arterial pressure (SAP) variability.

Hand rehabilitation with sonification techniques in the subacute stage of stroke.

After a stroke event, most survivors suffer from arm paresis, poor motor control and other disabilities that make activities of daily living difficult, severely affecting quality of life and personal independence. This randomized controlled trial aimed at evaluating the efficacy of a music-based sonification approach on upper limbs motor functions, quality of life and pain perceived during rehabilitation. The study involved 65 subacute stroke individuals during inpatient rehabilitation allocated into 2 groups which underwent usual care dayweek) respectively of standard upper extremity motor rehabilitation or upper extremity treatment with sonification techniques.

Music as support to Occupational Therapy.

Habilitation, rehabilitation and promotion of well-being is the ultimate goal of the occupational therapy process. Occupational therapy interventions take advantages from interdisciplinary approach, implying that classic rehabilitative models are constantly enhanced by updated evidences in rehabilitation literature and enriched with competences from different fields. Recent literature has showed how music interventions can improve clinical and rehabilitative outcomes at different levels.

Machine learning techniques to predict the effectiveness of music therapy: A randomized controlled trial.

Background: The literature shows the effectiveness of music listening, but which factors and what types of music produce therapeutic effects, as well as how music therapists can select music, remain unclear. Here, we present a study to establish the main predictive factors of music listening's relaxation effects using machine learning methods.

Methods: Three hundred and twenty healthy participants were evenly distributed by age, education level, presence of musical training, and sex.

Music in the workplace: A narrative literature review of intervention studies.

Background Music is widely used in clinical and rehabilitative fields and recently also in the field of Occupational Medicine. This review aims at selecting the evidence-based studies regarding music interventions in workplaces. Methods In order to carry out a narrative literature review, two independent pairs of investigators searched in PubMed and PsycInfo databases to select Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) or Clinical Controlled Trials (CCTs) in English regarding music and music therapy interventions in workplaces; the trials were published in peer-reviewed journals from January 2000 to February 2017.

[Le Tibetan Singing Bowls e l'intervento musicoterapeutico.].

Objectives: The use of idiofonic ethnical istruments known as "Tibetan Singing Bowls", characterized by a fascinating sound and a deep vibration, have been for millennials part of a culture including music, rythuals, theory of Chakra and oriental Ayurvedical medicine.

Methods: The practice of utilization of the Bowls is related to Sound Therapy rather than to Music Therapy, since the therapeutic effects appears to be a consequence of the vibrations of the Bowls, and not from their music. Besides, the lack of a therapeutic relationship (terapist/patient) makes not possible to include this kind of treatment in the field of Music Therapy.

The Music Therapy Session Assessment Scale (MT-SAS): Validation of a new tool for music therapy process evaluation.

Background: Music therapy (MT) interventions are aimed at creating and developing a relationship between patient and therapist. However, there is a lack of validated observational instruments to consistently evaluate the MT process.

Aim: The purpose of this study was the validation of Music Therapy Session Assessment Scale (MT-SAS), designed to assess the relationship between therapist and patient during active MT sessions.

Active music therapy approach for stroke patients in the post-acute rehabilitation.

Guidelines in stroke rehabilitation recommend the use of a multidisciplinary approach. Different approaches and techniques with music are used in the stroke rehabilitation to improve motor and cognitive functions but also psychological outcomes. In this randomized controlled pilot trial, relational active music therapy approaches were tested in the post-acute phase of disease.

[Music therapy and Occupational medicine].

Objectives: This review focuses on randomized and clinical controlled trials regarding the use of music in workplaces.

Methods: The paper represents a possible starting point to introduce a scientific approach in the use of music techniques in the occupational medicine, improving psychological and work performance outcomes.

Results: Some key points about the definition of music approaches and their aims were reported in the article.

Active music therapy approach in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a randomized-controlled trial.

This randomized controlled study assessed the efficacy of active music therapy (AMT) on anxiety, depression, and quality of life in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Communication and relationship during AMT treatment were also evaluated. Thirty patients were assigned randomly to experimental [AMT plus standard of care (SC)] or control (SC) groups.

Music therapy, emotions and the heart: a pilot study.

Background: The autonomic nervous system plays an important role in the control of cardiac function. It has been suggested that sound and music may have effects on the autonomic control of the heart inducing emotions, concomitantly with the activation of specific brain areas, i.e.