ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2021
Can Music Influence Patients With Disorders of Consciousness? An Event-Related Potential Study.
Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Impact of Music Therapy on Neurodevelopment of Preterm Infants and Functional Improvement in Children with Neurological Deficits.Pediatric reports · 2025Review
- Discriminative power of diverse nonlinear EEG dynamics across consciousness states during auditory stimulation in disorders of consciousness.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- Analyzing brain-activation responses to auditory stimuli improves the diagnosis of a disorder of consciousness by non-linear dynamic analysis of the EEG.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Combining HD-tDCS with music stimulation for patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness: Study protocol for an RCT trial.NeuroRehabilitation · 2024Article
- The effect and mechanisms of music therapy on the autonomic nervous system and brain networks of patients of minimal conscious states: a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Robotic Verticalization plus Music Therapy in Chronic Disorders of Consciousness: Promising Results from a Pilot Study.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Frontal and parietal lobes play crucial roles in understanding the disorder of consciousness: A perspective from electroencephalogram studies.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Review
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Abstract
backgroundLong-term disorders of consciousness (DOC) are a huge burden on both patients and their families. Previously, music intervention has been attempted as a potential therapy in DOC, with results indicating an enhancement of arousal and awareness; yet, to date, there are limited studies on music interventions in DOC with electroencephalogram monitoring. Meanwhile, prediction of awareness recovery is a challenge facing clinicians. The predictive value mismatch negativity (MMN), as a classical cognitive component in event-related potential, is still controversial. In this study, we use auditory event-related potential to probe the effect of music in DOC, and investigate whether music may improve the predictive value of MMN in awareness recovery.
methodsFourteen DOC patients were included in the prospective study. Auditory oddball electroencephalogram data were recorded twice with each patient, before and after 5 min of listening to a Chinese symphony that has joyful associations. The outcome was assessed 6 months later.
resultsSignificant differences of MMN amplitude were found between healthy controls and pre-music DOC patients (
conclusionsSome DOC patients, even those in a minimal consciousness state and those with unresponsive wakefulness
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