ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2023
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.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Role of Music Therapy in Neurocritical Care for Patients with Acute Brain Injury with Disorders of Consciousness: A Narrative Review and Proposed Framework for Practice.Neurocritical care · 2025Review
- The role of music in perinatal mental health, with a psychoneuroimmunological perspective.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2025Article
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- Rhythms of relief: perspectives on neurocognitive mechanisms of music interventions in ADHD.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The effect of musical sensory orientation training in improving consciousness level in patients with disorders of consciousness: a pilot study.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Effect of music therapy on children with autism spectrum disorders in the Chinese population: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Review
- Combining HD-tDCS with music stimulation for patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness: Study protocol for an RCT trial.NeuroRehabilitation · 2024Article
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Abstract
Introduction: Music therapy has been employed as an alternative treatment modality for the arousal therapy of patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC) in clinical settings. However, due to the absence of continuous quantitative measurements and the lack of a non-musical sound control group in most studies, the identification of the specific impact of music on DOC patients remains challenging. In this study, 20 patients diagnosed with minimally consciousness state (MCS) were selected, and a total of 15 patients completed the experiment. Methods: All patients were randomly assigned to three groups: an intervention group (music therapy group, Results: The results reveal that PNN50 ( Conclusion: Music therapy, as an emerging treatment for DOC, appears to be integral to the awakening of the peripheral nervous system-central nervous system based on the hypothalamic-brainstem-autonomic nervous system (HBA) axis, and is worthy of clinical promotion. The research was supported by the Beijing Science and Technology Project Foundation of China, No. Z181100001718066, and the National Key R&D Program of China No. 2022YFC3600300, No. 2022YFC3600305.
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