Music and dementia

A Baird, S Samson - Progress in brain research, 2015 - Elsevier
There is an increasing incidence of dementia in our aging population, and consequently an
urgent need to develop treatments and activities that may alleviate the symptoms of …

An overview of the use of music therapy in the context of Alzheimer's disease: a report of a French expert group

S Guetin, K Charras, A Berard, C Arbus… - …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Objectives: The aim of this overview is to present the developments of music therapy in
France, its techniques, mechanisms and principal indications, mainly in the context of …

Increased functional connectivity after listening to favored music in adults with Alzheimer dementia

JB King, KG Jones, E Goldberg, M Rollins… - The journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Background Personalized music programs have been proposed as an adjunct therapy for
patients with Alzheimer disease related dementia, and multicenter trials have now …

The effects of teaching songs during foreign language classes on students' foreign language anxiety

DD Dolean - Language teaching research, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA) has been the subject of several studies aimed
to optimize learning of a foreign language in the classroom. However, few studies provide …

Neurologic music therapy in cognitive rehabilitation

MH Thaut - Music Perception, 2010 - online.ucpress.edu
NEUROLOGIC MUSIC THERAPY LAST CAME INTO research and clinical focus via
cognitive rehabilitation. New imaging techniques studying higher cognitive functions in the …

Music enhances verbal episodic memory in Alzheimer's disease

J Palisson, C Roussel-Baclet, D Maillet… - Journal of clinical and …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Although previous studies suggest that music may facilitate verbal learning in a
healthy population, such a mnemonic effect has seldom been investigated in Alzheimer's …

[HTML][HTML] Nocturnal selective pressures on the evolution of human musicality as a missing piece of the adaptationist puzzle

MAC Varella - Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Human musicality exhibits the necessary hallmarks for biological adaptations. Evolutionary
explanations focus on recurrent adaptive problems that human musicality possibly solved in …

The effects of the music-with-movement intervention on the cognitive functions of people with moderate dementia: a randomized controlled trial

DSK Cheung, CKY Lai, FKY Wong… - Aging & mental …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the effects of the six-week music-with-
movement (MM) intervention, as compared with music listening (ML) and social activity (SA) …

[HTML][HTML] Music and dementia: individual differences in response to personalized playlists

S Garrido, CJ Stevens, E Chang… - Journal of Alzheimer's …, 2018 - content.iospress.com
Personalized music playlists are increasingly being used in health-care contexts to address
the psychological and behavioral symptoms in people with dementia. However, there is little …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of musical pleasure and musical hedonia on verbal episodic memory

G Cardona, A Rodriguez-Fornells, H Nye… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Music listening is one of the most pleasurable activities in our life. As a rewarding stimulus,
pleasant music could induce long-term memory improvements for the items encoded in …