Effectiveness of music therapy as an aid to neurorestoration of children with severe neurological disorders

Bringas, María Luisa; Zaldivar, Marilyn; Rojas, Pedro; Martinez-Montes, Karelia; Chongo, Dora; Ortega, Maria Antonieta; Galvizu, Reynaldo; Pérez, Alba Elisa Pérez; Morales, Lilia; Maragoto, Carlos; Vera, Héctor; Galán, Lı́dice; Besson, Mireille; Valdés‐Sosa, Pedro A.

doi:10.3389/fnins.2015.00427

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“…Although it was beyond our expectation that participants rated medium-tempo music with the strongest arousal and the lowest valence in this study, a large range of neural activation in the auditory cortex, PCC, precuneus, and IPL could provide a scientific explanation for this understanding. The cingulate gyrus is an important structure in the core music-evoked emotion network ( Koelsch, 2014 ) and was also found to be positively connected with humans’ ability to regulate emotions after long-time music exposure ( Bringas et al, 2015 ). The PCC is believed to link emotion and memory processes ( Maratos et al, 2001 ; Maddock et al, 2003 ) and has been implicated in autobiographical emotional recall ( Fink et al, 1996 ).…”

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Effects of Musical Tempo on Musicians’ and Non-musicians’ Emotional Experience When Listening to Music

Liu

Wei

et al. 2018

Front. Psychol.

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Tempo is an important musical element that affects human’s emotional processes when listening to music. However, it remains unclear how tempo and training affect individuals’ emotional experience of music. To explore the neural underpinnings of the effects of tempo on music-evoked emotion, music with fast, medium, and slow tempi were collected to compare differences in emotional responses using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of neural activity between musicians and non-musicians. Behaviorally, musicians perceived higher valence in fast music than did non-musicians. The main effects of musicians and non-musicians and tempo were significant, and a near significant interaction between group and tempo was found. In the arousal dimension, the mean score of medium-tempo music was the highest among the three kinds; in the valence dimension, the mean scores decreased in order from fast music, medium music, to slow music. Functional analyses revealed that the neural activation of musicians was stronger than those of non-musicians in the left inferior parietal lobe (IPL). A comparison of tempi showed a stronger activation from fast music than slow music in the bilateral superior temporal gyrus (STG), which provided corresponding neural evidence for the highest valence reported by participants for fast music. Medium music showed stronger activation than slow music in the right Heschl’s gyrus (HG), right middle temporal gyrus (MTG), right posterior cingulate cortex (PCC), right precuneus, right IPL, and left STG. Importantly, this study confirmed and explained the connection between music tempo and emotional experiences, and their interaction with individuals’ musical training.

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Effects of Musical Tempo on Musicians’ and Non-musicians’ Emotional Experience When Listening to Music

Liu

Wei

et al. 2018

Front. Psychol.

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“…By combining behavioral informatics with diffusion tensor imaging, we detect individual differences in brain connectivity that reflect individual differences in creative behavior. Results may have clinical applications by informing the design of creative music therapy programs as a form of neurorehabilitation for those recovering from neurological and/or communication disorders (Altenmüller & Schlaug;Bringas et al, 2015;Francois, Grau-Sanchez, Duarte, & Rodriguez-Fornells, 2015;Harrison, McNeely, & Earhart, 2017;Ripolles et al, 2015). Most generally, these results may be informative about what creativity entails, how the human brain enables creativity, and how we can learn to be more creative.…”

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White Matter Connectivity Reflects Success in Musical Improvisation

Zeng

Przysinda

Pfeifer

et al. 2017

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Creativity is the ability to produce work that is novel, high in quality, and appropriate to an audience. One domain of creativity comes from musical improvisation, in which individuals spontaneously create novel auditory-motor sequences that are aesthetically rewarding. Here we test the hypothesis that individual differences in creative behavior are subserved by mesial and lateral differences in white matter connectivity. We compare jazz improvising musicians against classical (non-improvising) musicians and non-musician control subjects in musical performance and diffusion tensor imaging. Subjects improvised on short musical motifs and underwent DTI.Statistical measures of fluency and entropy for musical performances predicted expert ratings of creativity for each performance. Tract-Based Spatial Statistics (TBSS) showed higher Fractional Anisotropy (FA) in the cingulate cortex and corpus callosum in jazz musicians. FA in the cingulate also correlated with entropy. Probabilistic tractography from these mesial regions to lateral seed regions of the arcuate fasciculus, a pathway known to be involved in sound perception and production, showed mesial-to-lateral connectivity that correlated with improvisation training. Results suggest that white matter connectivity between lateral and mesial structures may integrate domain-general and domain-specific components of creativity.

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“…In contrast, passive MT interventions involve patients listening to music, rather than actively participating with or producing it. Distinctions between these two types of MT interventions are often not made clear in the literature (Bringas et al, 2015;Doro, Neto, Cunha, & Doro, 2017;de la Rubia Orti et al, 2017). Some research has stressed a distinction between the two (Atiwannapat, Thaipisuttikul, Poopityastaporn, & Katekaew, 2016;Erkkila et al, 2011); yet, differences between active and passive interventions vary and comparative studies that isolate specific components of musical engagement have yet to be conducted.…”

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Active and Passive Rhythmic Music Therapy Interventions Differentially Modulate Sympathetic Autonomic Nervous System Activity

McPherson

Berger

Alagapan

et al. 2019

Journal of Music Therapy

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Dysregulation of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis has been implicated in psychiatric disorders. Music therapy (MT) has been shown to modulate heart-rate variability (HRV) and salivary stress markers, physiological markers of the ANS and HPA axes, respectively. Given the prominent role of arousal and stress physiology in many psychiatric disorders, MT has the potential to provide therapeutic benefits in psychiatry. Active MT requires patients to engage rhythmically with music; in contrast, passive MT requires patients to listen to music, eliminating the rhythmic movement seen in active MT. Yet, it remains unknown whether active or passive MT differentially modulates arousal and stress physiology. We contrasted the effects of active and passive MT experiences to examine the differential impact of rhythmic movement on the ANS and HPA axes in healthy participants. Individuals (N = 16) participated in a crossover study of 40 min of an active MT and a passive MT intervention. HRV recordings and saliva samples were collected both before and after each intervention. The high-frequency component (HF) and the ratio of low-frequency to high-frequency components (LF/HF) were calculated as cardiac markers of parasympathetic and sympathetic ANS activation, respectively. Saliva samples were analyzed for alpha-amylase and cortisol, markers of the sympathetic ANS and HPA axes, respectively. Active MT and passive MT interventions differentially modulated LF/HF, where active MT decreased LF/HF and passive MT increased LF/HF. These results indicate that MT affects the ANS and suggests that differences in engagement between active MT and passive MT lead to a differential modulation of the sympathetic ANS.

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Effectiveness of music therapy as an aid to neurorestoration of children with severe neurological disorders

Cited by 30 publications

References 52 publications

Effects of Musical Tempo on Musicians’ and Non-musicians’ Emotional Experience When Listening to Music

Effects of Musical Tempo on Musicians’ and Non-musicians’ Emotional Experience When Listening to Music

White Matter Connectivity Reflects Success in Musical Improvisation

Active and Passive Rhythmic Music Therapy Interventions Differentially Modulate Sympathetic Autonomic Nervous System Activity

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