ReviewTranslational psychiatry2023
Biological principles for music and mental health.
Review in Translational psychiatry, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Music's context-dependent influence on oxytocin, social bonding, and emotion regulation: a systematic review.Frontiers in cognition · 2025Pooled it
- Personality Type Shapes Acute Anxiety Response to Music and Medicine Intervention During First Chemotherapy (PEGASUS-2).Applied psychophysiology and biofeedback · 2026Trial
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- Increased pain resilience among heavy metal music festival attendees.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Music therapy for mental health in children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2026Review
- Music in Care (MIC) by Nurses: Initial Validation of a Questionnaire to Characterize Nurses' Attitudes and Feasibility of Implementation on the Use of Music in Patient Care.Journal of holistic nursing : official journal of the American Holistic Nurses' Association · 2026Article
- A scoping review of music-based digital therapeutics for stress, anxiety, and depression.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Review
- Effects of music elements on mycophenolate glucuronidation in rat liver microsomes.Journal of pharmacy & pharmaceutical sciences : a publication of the Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Societe canadienne des sciences pharmaceutiques · 2026Article
- Music activities that most elicit interest and pleasure among older people with mild-to-moderate dementia: a qualitative multiple-case study in Italy.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2026Article
- Music-based interventions at workplaces: a scoping review.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2025Article
- Neuroscientific Framework of Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions for Mental Health Across Diverse Cultural Populations: A Systematic Review of Effectiveness, Delivery Methods, and Engagement.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Review
- The Influence of Music on Mental Health Through Neuroplasticity: Mechanisms, Clinical Implications, and Contextual Perspectives.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- The impact of musical intervention during fetal and infant stages on social behavior and neurodevelopment in mice.Translational psychiatry · 2025Article
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- The neuroscience of music perception: a narrative review.Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria · 2025Review
- Feasibility Trial Protocol for a Remote Intentional Music Listening Intervention to Support Mental Health in Individuals with Chronic Stroke.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
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- Effect of music therapy on children with autism spectrum disorders in the Chinese population: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Review
- A context-dependent model of resilient functioning after childhood maltreatment-the case for flexible biobehavioral synchrony.Translational psychiatry · 2024Review
- Integrative Treatment Approaches with Mind-Body Therapies in the Management of Atopic Dermatitis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
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Abstract
Efforts to integrate music into healthcare systems and wellness practices are accelerating but the biological foundations supporting these initiatives remain underappreciated. As a result, music-based interventions are often sidelined in medicine. Here, I bring together advances in music research from neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry to bridge music's specific foundations in human biology with its specific therapeutic applications. The framework I propose organizes the neurophysiological effects of music around four core elements of human musicality: tonality, rhythm, reward, and sociality. For each, I review key concepts, biological bases, and evidence of clinical benefits. Within this framework, I outline a strategy to increase music's impact on health based on standardizing treatments and their alignment with individual differences in responsivity to these musical elements. I propose that an integrated biological understanding of human musicality-describing each element's functional origins, development, phylogeny, and neural bases-is critical to advancing rational applications of music in mental health and wellness.
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