ArticleFrontiers in psychology2017
White Matter Correlates of Musical Anhedonia: Implications for Evolution of Music.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05505019 (The Role of a Personalized Music Intervention Towards Alleviating Apathy in Parkinson's Disease), which is not on this map. Cited by 20 papers.
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The Role of a Personalized Music Intervention Towards Alleviating Apathy in Parkinson's Disease
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 83 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Functional Organization of Auditory and Reward Systems in Aging.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2023Article
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- Longitudinal changes in auditory and reward systems following receptive music-based intervention in older adults.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Integrating music-based interventions with Gamma-frequency stimulation: Implications for healthy ageing.The European journal of neuroscience · 2022Review
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- The Pastoral Origin of Semiotically Functional Tonal Organization of Music.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Resting-State Connectivity of Auditory and Reward Systems in Alzheimer's Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Article
- White Matter Microstructure Reflects Individual Differences in Music Reward Sensitivity.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2019Article
- A Pilot Study Investigating the Effect of Music-Based Intervention on Depression and Anhedonia.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Recent theoretical advances in the evolution of music posit that affective communication is an evolutionary function of music through which the mind and brain are transformed. A rigorous test of this view should entail examining the neuroanatomical mechanisms for affective communication of music, specifically by comparing individual differences in the general population with a special population who lacks specific affective responses to music. Here we compare white matter connectivity in BW, a case with severe musical anhedonia, with a large sample of control subjects who exhibit normal variability in reward sensitivity to music. We show for the first time that structural connectivity within the reward system can predict individual differences in musical reward in a large population, but specific patterns in connectivity between auditory and reward systems are special in an extreme case of specific musical anhedonia. Results support and extend the Mixed Origins of Music theory by identifying multiple neural pathways through which music might operate as an affective signaling system.
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