ReviewFrontiers in psychology2014
Neurobiological foundations of neurologic music therapy: rhythmic entrainment and the motor system.
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Musical Attention Control and Executive Function Training for Adults With MDD
Music Therapy for Comatose Brain Injured Patients
A Pilot Randomized Waitlist-Controlled Study of Home-Based Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation to Evaluate Mobility, Balance, and Patient-Reported Outcomes After Traumatic Brain Injury
Who cites it
150 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The effect of music on breastfeeding: a systematic review and meta-analysis of breast milk production, composition, and maternal stress.International breastfeeding journal · 2026Pooled it
- A Systematic Review and Evidence Gap Map Evaluation of Rhythmic and/or Complex Movement Interventions and Child Cognitive Outcomes.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2025Pooled it
- Effectiveness and applications of neurologic music therapy in motor and non-motor rehabilitation for older adults with Parkinson's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Pooled it
- Effect of Music Based Therapy Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation (RAS) Using Wearable Device in Rehabilitation of Neurological Patients: A Systematic Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Pooled it
- The effect of neurologic music therapy in patients with cerebral palsy: A systematic narrative review.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Pooled it
- Effects of rhythmic auditory stimulation on motor function and balance ability in stroke: A systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical randomized controlled studies.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Pooled it
- Music, Rhythm and Trauma: A Critical Interpretive Synthesis of Research Literature.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Pooled it
- Effects of (music-based) rhythmic auditory cueing training on gait and posture post-stroke: A systematic review & dose-response meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2019Pooled it
- Effect of rhythmic auditory cueing on parkinsonian gait: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2018Pooled it
- The effect of self-selected soothing music on fistula puncture-related pain and comfort levels in hemodialysis patients: a randomized controlled, single-blind, single-center study.International urology and nephrology · 2026Trial
- Gait Responses in People with Parkinson Disease During Autonomous Closed-loop Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation: An Exploratory Analysis.Neurorehabilitation and neural repair · 2025Trial
- Effects of music-based group exercise in patients with acquired brain injury-a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Trial
- Effect of music on hemodynamic fluctuations in women during induction of general anesthesia: A prospective randomized controlled multicenter trial.Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2024Trial
- The Effects of a Single Session of a Rhythmic Movement Program on Selected Biopsychological Parameters in PD Patients: A Methodological Approach.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Trial
- Walking to your right music: a randomized controlled trial on the novel use of treadmill plus music in Parkinson's disease.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2019Trial
- Effects of music intervention during caesarean delivery on anxiety and stress of the mother a controlled, randomised study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2018Trial
- Music meets robotics: a prospective randomized study on motivation during robot aided therapy.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2018Trial
- Intrinsic Rhythmicity Predicts Synchronization-Continuation Entrainment Performance.Scientific reports · 2018Trial
- Musical Episodic Modulation of Human Functioning: Anticipation Mechanisms, Personal Sense, and Emotional Recall.Integrative psychological & behavioral science · 2026Article
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Abstract
Entrainment is defined by a temporal locking process in which one system's motion or signal frequency entrains the frequency of another system. This process is a universal phenomenon that can be observed in physical (e.g., pendulum clocks) and biological systems (e.g., fire flies). However, entrainment can also be observed between human sensory and motor systems. The function of rhythmic entrainment in rehabilitative training and learning was established for the first time by Thaut and colleagues in several research studies in the early 1990s. It was shown that the inherent periodicity of auditory rhythmic patterns could entrain movement patterns in patients with movement disorders (see for a review: Thaut et al., 1999). Physiological, kinematic, and behavioral movement analysis showed very quickly that entrainment cues not only changed the timing of movement but also improved spatial and force parameters. Mathematical models have shown that anticipatory rhythmic templates as critical time constraints can result in the complete specification of the dynamics of a movement over the entire movement cycle, thereby optimizing motor planning and execution. Furthermore, temporal rhythmic entrainment has been successfully extended into applications in cognitive rehabilitation and speech and language rehabilitation, and thus become one of the major neurological mechanisms linking music and rhythm to brain rehabilitation. These findings provided a scientific basis for the development of neurologic music therapy.
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