ArticleBrain sciences2021
The Benefits of Music Listening for Induced State Anxiety: Behavioral and Physiological Evidence.
Article in Brain sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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.
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.
Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.
- Musician presence and its effects on physiological and psychological well-being in live versus livestreamed concerts.Scientific reports · 2026Trial
- Integrating EEG and fMRI in naturalistic paradigms: Advances in understanding mental disorders-a decade study in review (2014-2024).Dialogues in clinical neuroscience · 2026Review
- Potential Effects of Music on Non-Motor Symptoms in Parkinson's Disease: Translating Mechanisms to Therapy.Neurology international · 2026Review
- Musical self-expression and empathy as dual pathways from group music participation to pro-social behavior: a structural equation modeling approach.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Is There a Role for Music Intervention in Reducing Anxiety and Pain in Males During Outpatient Flexible Cystoscopy? A Randomized Controlled Study.Urology research & practice · 2025Article
- Evaluating the Efficacy of a 5-Min Music Listening Intervention for State Anxiety Reduction in College Students: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Health science reports · 2025Article
- EEG analysis of speaking and quiet states during different emotional music stimuli.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Evaluating music education interventions for mental health in Chinese university student: a dual fuzzy analytic method.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Music combined with dexmedetomidine relieves preoperative anxiety and promotes postoperative recovery in patients undergoing gynecologic laparoscopic surgery: a randomized clinical trial.American journal of translational research · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundSome clinical studies have indicated that neutral and happy music may relieve state anxiety. However, the brain mechanisms by which these effective interventions in music impact state anxiety remain unknown.
methodsIn this study, we selected music with clinical effects for therapy, and 62 subjects were included using the evoked anxiety paradigm. After evoking anxiety with a visual stimulus, all subjects were randomly divided into three groups (listening to happy music, neutral music and a blank stimulus), and EEG signals were acquired.
resultsWe found that different emotional types of music might have different mechanisms in state anxiety interventions. Neutral music had the effect of alleviating state anxiety. The brain mechanisms supported that neutral music ameliorating state anxiety was associated with decreased power spectral density of the occipital lobe and increased brain functional connectivity between the occipital lobe and frontal lobe. Happy music also had the effect of alleviating state anxiety, and the brain mechanism was associated with enhanced brain functional connectivity between the occipital lobe and right temporal lobe.
conclusionsThis study may be important for a deep understanding of the mechanisms associated with state anxiety music interventions and may further contribute to future clinical treatment using nonpharmaceutical interventions.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.