Evaluation protocol for amusia - portuguese sample

Peixoto, Maria Conceição; Martins, Jorge Humberto; Teixeira, Pedro J.; Alves, Márcia; Bastos, José Roberto Magalhães; Ribeiro, Carlos

doi:10.5935/1808-8694.20120039

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“…This finding suggests that the MBEA should be reserved for patients with a mild‐to‐moderate cognitive decline. It may, instead, be necessary to design other musical tests that are less elaborate than the MBEA and generally more suitable for subjects suffering from severe cognitive impairment. Since demented patients demonstrate a level of musical achievement and pleasure that does not parallel the level of achievement observed in other types of activities, even in more advanced stages of the disease, it might be very interesting to study which musical skills are spared in this population.…”

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Musical cognition in Alzheimer's disease: application of the Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Amusia

Campanelli

Rendace

Parisi

et al. 2016

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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The aim of this study was to assess certain musical abilities in 30 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and 30 healthy controls by using the complete version of the Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Amusia (MBEA). This battery evaluates melodic (scale, contour, and interval) and temporal (rhythm and meter) perception of music and musical memory. We found that altered musical processing is a common feature in AD. Despite that, AD subjects show partially spared abilities for temporal organization of music, though not for melodic perception and musical memory. This peculiar dysfunctional pattern could depend on the neurodegenerative involvement of some specific areas for music perception and memory in the brains of AD patients. Further studies are needed to investigate the usefulness of additional musical tests like the MBEA on larger samples to confirm our preliminary data.

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confidence: 99%