Exploring Spatio-Spectral Electroencephalogram Modulations of Imbuing Emotional Intent During Active Piano Playing.

Imbuing emotional intent serves as a crucial modulator of music improvisation during active musical instrument playing. However, most improvisation-related neural endeavors have been gained without considering the emotional context. This study attempts to exploit reproducible spatio-spectral electroencephalogram (EEG) oscillations of emotional intent using a data-driven independent component analysis framework in an ecological multiday piano playing experiment.

EEG Connectivity during Active Emotional Musical Performance.

The neural correlates of intentional emotion transfer by the music performer are not well investigated as the present-day research mainly focuses on the assessment of emotions evoked by music. In this study, we aim to determine whether EEG connectivity patterns can reflect differences in information exchange during emotional playing. The EEG data were recorded while subjects were performing a simple piano score with contrasting emotional intentions and evaluated the subjectively experienced success of emotion transfer.

Spectral Characteristics of EEG during Active Emotional Musical Performance.

The research on neural correlates of intentional emotion communication by the music performer is still limited. In this study, we attempted to evaluate EEG patterns recorded from musicians who were instructed to perform a simple piano score while manipulating their manner of play to express specific contrasting emotions and self-rate the emotion they reflected on the scales of arousal and valence. In the emotional playing task, participants were instructed to improvise variations in a manner by which the targeted emotion is communicated.

[Selection of rational combinations of indapamide with various of calcium antagonists in patients with arterial hypertension].

We studied 89 patients with II degree arterial hypertension (age 43-67 years). Before and in 24 weeks after therapy we carried out 24-hour monitoring of arterial pressure and Doppler echocardiography. Patients were divided into 2 groups.

[Efficacy of calcium antagonists depending on the functional state of parathyroid glands in patients with hypertensive disease].

Hypotensive and cardioprotective effects of amlodipine (normodipine) were evaluated in 65 patients (35 men and 30 women) with grade II essential arterial hypertension treated with regard for calcium-controlling parathyroid function. 24 hour Holter monitoring, Doppler-cardiography, and blood PTH measurement were performed before and 6 months after the onset of therapy. The patients were divided into 3 groups depending on PTH levels (0-25, 26-50, and over 51 pg/ml).