ArticleAlzheimer's research & therapy2019
Music and emotion in Alzheimer's disease.
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- Efficacy of music therapy as a non-pharmacological measure to support alzheimer's disease patients: a systematic review.BMC geriatrics · 2025Pooled it
- Exploring the Relationship Between Deficits in Social Cognition and Neurodegenerative Dementia: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Pooled it
- Social engagement, pleasure, and memory in musical reminiscence workshops for individuals with Alzheimer's disease.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- Beauty in the shadow of neurodegenerative disease: a narrative review on aesthetic experience, neural mechanisms, and therapeutic frontiers.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Review
- Comprehension of acoustically degraded emotional prosody in Alzheimer's disease and primary progressive aphasia.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Network connectivity differences in music listening among older adults following a music-based intervention.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Network connectivity differences in music listening among older adults following a music-based intervention.Aging brain · 2024Article
- A Novel Coupling Model of Physiological Degradation and Emotional State for Prediction of Alzheimer's Disease Progression.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Alexithymia in Alzheimer's Disease.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundAlzheimer's disease may compromise several musical competences, though no clear data is available in the scientific literature. Furthermore, music is capable of communicating basic emotions, but little is known about the emotional aspect of music in patients with Alzheimer's disease. We present a systematic investigation of music processing in relation to extra-musical skills, in particular emotional skills in patients with Alzheimer's disease.
methodsWe tested 30 patients with mild or moderate Alzheimer's disease and 30 control subjects. We essentially evaluated (a) musical competences, using the extra-linguistic test, Solfeggio test and the recognition test of musical emotions-elaborated by our research team-and the Seashore test, and (b) emotional capacities using emotional memory and emotional prosody tests-made by our research group.
resultsWe significantly observed lower total results of every test assessing cognitive, emotional and music competences in Alzheimer's disease patients than those in control subjects, but the score of musical emotion recognition test did not reach to a significant difference between the subjects groups.
conclusionsOur findings found a global impairment of music competences in Alzheimer patients with cognitive and emotional troubles. Nevertheless, the performances in the recognition test of musical emotions showed a trend towards a performance difference. We can suggest that Alzheimer's disease currently presents an aphaso-agnoso-apractic-amusia syndrome.
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