ArticleFrontiers in psychology2018
EEG-Based Analysis of the Emotional Effect of Music Therapy on Palliative Care Cancer Patients.
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- Music interventions for improving psychological and physical outcomes in people with cancer.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Psychosocial Interventions for Pain Management in Advanced Cancer Patients: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Current oncology reports · 2020Pooled it
- Music Therapy in the Psychosocial Treatment of Adult Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Pooled it
- Music therapy with adult burn patients in the intensive care unit: short-term analysis of electrophysiological signals during music-assisted relaxation.Scientific reports · 2024Trial
- Neurophysiological markers of emotion regulation predict efficacy of entrepreneurship education.Scientific reports · 2023Trial
- Music-Based Interventions in Advanced Cancer Palliative Care: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials Identified Within the Broader Field of Art-Based Interventions.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Unveiling the Humanizing and Therapeutic Values of Live Music in Healthcare Settings: A Scoping Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Investigating the Effect of the 6-Week Mindful Self-Compassion Program for Emerging Adults (EYL) on Stress Response, Brain Activity, and Self-Compassion Among Chinese University Students: An Electroencephalogram (EEG) Quasi-experimental Study Using Portable EEG Headband.Applied psychophysiology and biofeedback · 2026Article
- Role of Electroencephalography in the Assessment of Cortical Responses Elicited by Music Therapy in Burn Patients Undergoing Intensive Care.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Biological Effects of Music Therapy in End-of-Life Care: A Narrative Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Review
- From Neural Networks to Emotional Networks: A Systematic Review of EEG-Based Emotion Recognition in Cognitive Neuroscience and Real-World Applications.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Complementary Musical Intervention for Patients in Palliative Care in Spain: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- A review of artificial intelligence methods enabled music-evoked EEG emotion recognition and their applications.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Review
- Effects of Geometric Sound on Brainwave Activity Patterns, Autonomic Nervous System Markers, Emotional Response, and Faraday Wave Pattern Morphology.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2024Article
- Recent Progress in Mind-Body Therapies in Cancer Care.Current oncology reports · 2023Review
- An Efficient Machine Learning-Based Emotional Valence Recognition Approach Towards Wearable EEG.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Emotional State Classification from MUSIC-Based Features of Multichannel EEG Signals.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- EEG Emotion Recognition Applied to the Effect Analysis of Music on Emotion Changes in Psychological Healthcare.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Review
- Long Short-Term Memory-Based Music Analysis System for Music Therapy.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Music is known to have the power to induce strong emotions. The present study assessed, based on Electroencephalography (EEG) data, the emotional response of terminally ill cancer patients to a music therapy intervention in a randomized controlled trial. A sample of 40 participants from the palliative care unit in the Hospital del Mar in Barcelona was randomly assigned to two groups of 20. The first group [experimental group (EG)] participated in a session of music therapy (MT), and the second group [control group (CG)] was provided with company. Based on our previous work on EEG-based emotion detection, instantaneous emotional indicators in the form of a coordinate in the arousal-valence plane were extracted from the participants' EEG data. The emotional indicators were analyzed in order to quantify (1) the overall emotional effect of MT on the patients compared to controls, and (2) the relative effect of the different MT techniques applied during each session. During each MT session, five conditions were considered:
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