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- Emotional lability is a significant issue for adults with ADHD, often treated with medications like methylphenidate.
- A study was conducted to explore whether listening to music could serve as a non-drug method to enhance mood, involving 40 ADHD patients and 44 healthy individuals.
- Results showed that listening to Mozart's music for 10 minutes improved mood and reduced feelings of sadness and hopelessness in both ADHD patients and healthy subjects, while no mood improvement was observed in the silence group.
Article Abstract
Emotional lability is a common problem in adult patients with ADHD and is usually treated with methylphenidate. It is generally known that music can be used to improve mood in healthy adults. Therefore, this study was conducted to test the suitability of music as a possible non-pharmacological measure to improve mood. Forty patients with ADHD and 44 healthy control subjects were randomly assigned to one of two experimental conditions. The first group (music group) listened to Mozart's music (KV 448) for 10 min while the second group remained in a silent room for 10 min (silence group). Subjective arousal and mood were assessed using self-report questionnaires before and after each condition. We showed that music listening led to a decrease in negative mood (sadness and hopelessness) in the ADHD group as well as in healthy controls. This effect was not evident in both silence groups.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6529778 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01104 | DOI Listing |
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