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Music Intervention Approaches for Alzheimer’s Disease: A Review of the Literature

Music interventions have been widely adopted as a potential non-pharmacological therapy for patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) to treat cognitive and/or behavioral symptoms of the disease. In spite of the prevalence of such therapies, evidence for their effectiveness report mixed results in the...

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Autores principales: Leggieri, Melissa, Thaut, Michael H., Fornazzari, Luis, Schweizer, Tom A., Barfett, Joseph, Munoz, David G., Fischer, Corinne E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6424022/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30930728
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2019.00132
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author Leggieri, Melissa
Thaut, Michael H.
Fornazzari, Luis
Schweizer, Tom A.
Barfett, Joseph
Munoz, David G.
Fischer, Corinne E.
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Fornazzari, Luis
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description Music interventions have been widely adopted as a potential non-pharmacological therapy for patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) to treat cognitive and/or behavioral symptoms of the disease. In spite of the prevalence of such therapies, evidence for their effectiveness report mixed results in the literature. The purpose of this narrative review is to investigate the effectiveness of various intervention strategies (music therapy vs. music listening techniques) and music type used in the intervention (individualized vs. non-individualized music) on cognitive and behavioral outcomes for persons with AD. Databases were searched for studies using either active music therapy or music listening techniques over the last 10 years. These studies were in English, included persons with AD dementia, and whose protocol gathered pre- and post-intervention outcome measures. We initially identified 206 papers which were then reduced to 167 after removing duplicates. Further review yielded 13 papers which were extensively reviewed, resulting in a final sample of six papers. Our analysis of these papers suggested that, regardless of the music intervention approach, individualized music regimens provided the best outcomes for the patient. Furthermore, music listening may act as a relaxation technique and therefore provide a long-term impact for the patient, while active music therapy may acts to engage participants through social interaction and provide acute benefits. Our findings suggest that music techniques can be utilized in various ways to improve behavior and cognition.
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spelling pubmed-64240222019-03-29 Music Intervention Approaches for Alzheimer’s Disease: A Review of the Literature Leggieri, Melissa Thaut, Michael H. Fornazzari, Luis Schweizer, Tom A. Barfett, Joseph Munoz, David G. Fischer, Corinne E. Front Neurosci Neuroscience Music interventions have been widely adopted as a potential non-pharmacological therapy for patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) to treat cognitive and/or behavioral symptoms of the disease. In spite of the prevalence of such therapies, evidence for their effectiveness report mixed results in the literature. The purpose of this narrative review is to investigate the effectiveness of various intervention strategies (music therapy vs. music listening techniques) and music type used in the intervention (individualized vs. non-individualized music) on cognitive and behavioral outcomes for persons with AD. Databases were searched for studies using either active music therapy or music listening techniques over the last 10 years. These studies were in English, included persons with AD dementia, and whose protocol gathered pre- and post-intervention outcome measures. We initially identified 206 papers which were then reduced to 167 after removing duplicates. Further review yielded 13 papers which were extensively reviewed, resulting in a final sample of six papers. Our analysis of these papers suggested that, regardless of the music intervention approach, individualized music regimens provided the best outcomes for the patient. Furthermore, music listening may act as a relaxation technique and therefore provide a long-term impact for the patient, while active music therapy may acts to engage participants through social interaction and provide acute benefits. Our findings suggest that music techniques can be utilized in various ways to improve behavior and cognition. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-03-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6424022/ /pubmed/30930728 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2019.00132 Text en Copyright © 2019 Leggieri, Thaut, Fornazzari, Schweizer, Barfett, Munoz and Fischer. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Fornazzari, Luis
Schweizer, Tom A.
Barfett, Joseph
Munoz, David G.
Fischer, Corinne E.
Music Intervention Approaches for Alzheimer’s Disease: A Review of the Literature
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