Music Enhances Category Fluency In Healthy Older Adults And Alzheimer's Disease Patients

Thompson, R. G.; Moulin, Chris J. A.; Hayre, S.; Jones, Roy

doi:10.1080/03610730590882819

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“…Relaxing background music is therefore able to reduce anxiety levels and thus encourage autobiographical memory recall. These results confirm the findings observed by Thompson et al [27] on verbal fluency in the same type of population.…”

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Effect of Music Therapy on Anxiety and Depression in Patients with Alzheimer’s Type Dementia: Randomised, Controlled Study

Guétin

Portet

Picot

et al. 2009

Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord

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Background/Aims: Numerous studies have indicated the value of music therapy in the management of patients with Alzheimer’s disease. A recent pilot study demonstrated the feasibility and usefulness of a new music therapy technique. The aim of this controlled, randomised study was to assess the effects of this new music therapy technique on anxiety and depression in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer-type dementia. Methods: This was a single-centre, comparative, controlled, randomised study, with blinded assessment of its results. The duration of follow-up was 24 weeks. The treated group (n = 15) participated in weekly sessions of individual, receptive music therapy. The musical style of the session was chosen by the patient. The validated ‘U’ technique was employed. The control group (n = 15) participated under the same conditions in reading sessions. The principal endpoint, measured at weeks 1, 4, 8, 16 and 24, was the level of anxiety (Hamilton Scale). Changes in the depression score (Geriatric Depression Scale) were also analyzed as a secondary endpoint. Results: Significant improvements in anxiety (p < 0.01) and depression (p < 0.01) were observed in the music therapy group as from week 4 and until week 16. The effect of music therapy was sustained for up to 8 weeks after the discontinuation of sessions between weeks 16 and 24 (p < 0.01). Conclusion: These results confirm the valuable effect of music therapy on anxiety and depression in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease. This new music therapy technique is simple to implement and can easily be integrated in a multidisciplinary programme for the management of Alzheimer’s disease.

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confidence: 83%

Effect of Music Therapy on Anxiety and Depression in Patients with Alzheimer’s Type Dementia: Randomised, Controlled Study

Guétin

Portet

Picot

et al. 2009

Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord

308

138

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“…Smith-Marchese (1994) reported an amelioration of cognitive deficits in AD patients that participated for six weeks in musical events, which comprised playing simple musical instruments, singing, and body movement. Thompson et al (2005) reported that exposure to classical music increased cognitive performance in AD patients, leading to better performances on category fluency tasks. Aldridge (1995) underlined that music therapy can enhance socialization and communication skills, leading to a greater cognitive stimulation of the patient.…”

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Cognitive reserve and its implications for rehabilitation and Alzheimer’s disease

Liberati¹,

Raffone

Belardinelli

2011

Cogn Process

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According to the Cognitive reserve hypothesis, several factors related to mental engagement, such as level of education, type of occupation, leisure activities and social network, appear to affect the risk of developing clinical dementia. The present article provides an overview of the studies that have investigated the effects of mental engagement and cognitive stimulation specifically on dementia of the Alzheimer's type (AD). Mental training and cognitive stimulation interventions in AD have been shown to be useful in increasing patients' ability in performing activities of daily living (ADL), allowing them to maintain relative independence. Since cognitive engagement and stimulation are known to modify the brain processes to perform tasks, by recruiting alternative and more efficient networks, this review is especially focused on cognitive rehabilitation in AD patients, which has been shown to improve their global functioning and cognition. This perspective stresses the idea that cognitive reserve is not a fixed factor, but can be continuously modified by life experiences, even when the brain is already affected by neuropathology.

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“…A substantial body of structural and functional neuroimaging work in the healthy brain and in patients with focal brain lesions has delineated distributed cortico-subcortical networks that analyze the dimensions of music [6,12,13]: these networks closely overlap the networks targeted in canonical dementia syndromes [14,15]. However, to date most studies of music in dementia have focused on the interaction of music and memory [16][17][18], preserved abilities in trained musicians developing dementia [16,19,20] and potential benefits of music more widely in dementia [21][22][23][24][25].…”

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Music Perception in Dementia

Golden

Clark

Nicholas

et al. 2016

JAD

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# These authors contributed equally to this work. AbstractDespite much recent interest in music and dementia, music perception has not been widely studied across dementia syndromes using an information processing approach. Here we addressed this issue in a cohort of 30 patients representing major dementia syndromes of typical Alzheimer's disease (AD, n=16), logopenic aphasia (LPA, an Alzheimer variant syndrome; n=5) and progressive nonfluent aphasia (PNFA; n=9) in relation to 19 healthy age-matched individuals. We designed a novel neuropsychological battery to assess perception of musical patterns in the dimensions of pitch and temporal information (requiring detection of notes that deviated from the established pattern based on local or global sequence features) and musical scene analysis (requiring detection of a familiar tune within polyphonic harmony). Performance on these tests was referenced to generic auditory (timbral) deviance detection and recognition of familiar tunes and adjusted for general auditory working memory performance. Relative to healthy controls, patients with AD and LPA had group-level deficits of global pitch (melody contour) processing while patients with PNFA as a group had deficits of local (interval) as well as global pitch processing. There was substantial individual variation within syndromic groups. No specific deficits of musical temporal processing, timbre processing, musical scene analysis or tune recognition were identified. The findings suggest that particular aspects of music perception such as pitch pattern analysis may open a window on the processing of information streams in major dementia syndromes. The potential selectivity of musical deficits for particular dementia syndromes and particular dimensions of processing warrants further systematic investigation.

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Music Enhances Category Fluency In Healthy Older Adults And Alzheimer's Disease Patients

Cited by 135 publications

References 13 publications

Effect of Music Therapy on Anxiety and Depression in Patients with Alzheimer’s Type Dementia: Randomised, Controlled Study

Effect of Music Therapy on Anxiety and Depression in Patients with Alzheimer’s Type Dementia: Randomised, Controlled Study

Cognitive reserve and its implications for rehabilitation and Alzheimer’s disease

Music Perception in Dementia

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