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ReviewCurrent neurology and neuroscience reports2019

Music Therapy and Music-Based Interventions for Movement Disorders.

Kerry Devlin, Jumana T Alshaikh, Alexander Pantelyat

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Review in Current neurology and neuroscience reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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41citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
4.5field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

41 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 93 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Music Therapy and Parkinson's Disease: A Systematic Review from 2015-2020.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  12. A review of concurrent sonified biofeedback in balance and gait training.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2025
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  19. Clinical music interventions and music therapy in dermatology.Archives of dermatological research · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kerry DevlinPeabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Jumana T AlshaikhDepartment of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Alexander PantelyatDepartment of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. apantel1@jhmi.edu.
Johns Hopkins University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewThere is emerging evidence that music therapy and other methods using music and rhythm may meaningfully improve a broad range of symptoms in neurological and non-neurological disorders. This review highlights the findings of recent studies utilizing music and rhythm-based interventions for gait impairment, other motor symptoms, and non-motor symptoms in Parkinson disease (PD) and other movement disorders. Limitations of current studies as well as future research directions are discussed. RECENT

findingsMultiple studies have demonstrated short-term benefits of rhythmic auditory stimulation on gait parameters including gait freezing in PD, with recent studies indicating that it may reduce falls. Demonstration of benefits for gait in both dopaminergic "on" and "off" states suggests that this intervention can be a valuable addition to the current armamentarium of PD therapies. There is also emerging evidence of motor and non-motor benefits from group dancing, singing, and instrumental music performance in PD. Preliminary evidence for music therapy and music-based interventions in movement disorders other than PD (such as Huntington disease, Tourette syndrome, and progressive supranuclear palsy) is limited but promising. Music therapy and other music and rhythm-based interventions may offer a range of symptomatic benefits to patients with PD and other movement disorders. Studies investigating the potential mechanisms of music's effects and well-controlled multicenter trials of these interventions are urgently needed.

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HumansMovement DisordersMusic TherapyParkinson DiseaseHuntington diseaseMovement disordersMusic therapyParkinson diseaseRhythmic auditory stimulationRhythmic cueing

Identifiers

PMID31720865
OpenAlexW2983954563

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