ArticleBrain, behavior, & immunity - health2021
Music, mental health, and immunity.
Article in Brain, behavior, & immunity - health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pooled it
- Maternal communication and attachment following a group singing intervention for postnatal depression: findings from the SHAPER-PND trial.Psychological medicine · 2026Trial
- Personality Type Shapes Acute Anxiety Response to Music and Medicine Intervention During First Chemotherapy (PEGASUS-2).Applied psychophysiology and biofeedback · 2026Trial
- Effect of music therapy combined with aerobic exercise on sleep quality among breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy after a radical mastectomy: a randomized controlled trial.BMC women's health · 2024Trial
- Navigating Care and Self-Care: Understanding Latina Caregivers' Prioritization and Engagement in Self-Care Practices.Journal of transcultural nursing : official journal of the Transcultural Nursing Society · 2026Article
- Understanding emotional responses to music using machine learning: evidence from a public dataset.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Music-based interventions at workplaces: a scoping review.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2025Article
- The Influence of Music on Mental Health Through Neuroplasticity: Mechanisms, Clinical Implications, and Contextual Perspectives.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- The role of music in perinatal mental health, with a psychoneuroimmunological perspective.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2025Article
- Does Music Experience Impact the Vascular Endothelial Response to Singing?Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Decreased COCommunications psychology · 2025Article
- Home Environment as a Therapeutic Target for Prevention and Treatment of Chronic Diseases: Delivering Restorative Living Spaces, Patient Education and Self-Care by Bridging Biophilic Design, E-Commerce and Digital Health Technologies.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Dopamine dynamics in chronic pain: music-induced, sex-dependent, behavioral effects in mice.Pain reports · 2025Article
- Effects of music on post-stroke sleep disorders and treatment perspectives: review and narrative synthesis.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Review
- Evaluating the Impact of an Inpatient Therapeutic Bedside Music Program on the Care Experience.Journal of patient experience · 2025Article
- Knowledge, attitudes, and willingness of bipolar disorder patients toward electroconvulsive therapy: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Integrating music and nature: a scoping review of research on interventions involving both music- and nature-based strategies for mental health and wellbeing.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Review
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- Music-based therapeutic interventions for medical school students with emotional regulation and mental health: a pre-post cohort study.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Aged brain and neuroimmune responses to COVID-19: post-acute sequelae and modulatory effects of behavioral and nutritional interventions.Immunity & ageing : I & A · 2023Review
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Abstract
Music is a crucial element of everyday life and plays a central role in all human cultures: it is omnipresent and is listened to and played by persons of all ages, races, and ethnic backgrounds. But music is not simply entertainment: scientific research has shown that it can influence physiological processes that enhance physical and mental wellbeing. Consequently, it can have critical adaptive functions. Studies on patients diagnosed with mental disorders have shown a visible improvement in their mental health after interventions using music as primary tool. Other studies have demonstrated the benefits of music, including improved heart rate, motor skills, brain stimulation, and immune system enhancement. Mental and physical illnesses can be costly in terms of medications and psychological care, and music can offer a less expansive addition to an individual's treatment regimen. Interventions using music offers music-based activities in both a therapeutic environment (Music therapy) with the support of a trained professional, and non-therapeutic setting, providing an atmosphere that is positive, supportive, and proactive while learning non-invasive techniques to treat symptoms associated with various disorders - and possibly modulate the immune system.
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