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      • Many researches have demonstrated that MT is beneficial to improve cognition and to reduce neuropsychiatric syndromes of AD [10, 11]. Since the absence of side effects and the convenience to operate for AD patients and their caregivers, MT becomes an ideal option for intervention.
      translationalneurodegeneration.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40035-017-0073-9
  1. This supports the growing body of evidence that targets music therapy as a promising cognitive rehabilitating process aiming to improve cognitive functions in individuals with AD dementia like memory, executive functions, or attention.

  2. Our results suggest that music therapy has a positive effect on cognitive function for people living with dementia. To reach that assumption, we performed a comprehensive systematic review that includes eight studies with 816 subjects.

    • Listening to The Music
    • Singing Songs
    • Music-Based Intervention
    • Background Music
    • Music with Activities
    • Multisensory Stimulation

    There are many researches using receptive music for listening in the MT . Johnson JK reported that the AD twin had a significant improvement on the spatial-temporal task after listening to a piece of piano sonata of Mozart in 1998 . Last year Li CH et al. used the method of listening to Mozart’s Sonata (KV 448) and Pachelbel’s Canon with headphones...

    Singing is also widely used for dementia. Satoh M et al. made 10 AD patients sing their favorite songs for 6 months using karaoke . Karaoke is a method with music automatically played accompaniment when patients are singing. Many people are very familiar with karaoke, which is used universal and is enjoyable. People can mediate their own voice duri...

    This technique always calls for the music therapist using music elements like rhythm or melody as accompaniments to help patients to remember verbal contents. Simmons-Stern NR et al. first compared the recognition effectiveness of sung lyrics and spoken lyrics in AD patients in 2010. They found that music could enhance the brain encoding capacity o...

    There are rare clinical documents using music as background in dementia patients. Vivaldi’s ‘Spring’ movement from ‘The Four Seasons’ was once used as a background music during the recall tests in mild AD patients and healthy controls. Results indicated that music background could enhance the recall effects of autobiographical memory and reduce anx...

    There are more and more researches using MT which comprises not only just music but also with other activities like singing, dancing, playing instruments, rhythmic movements and so on [22–25]. Särkämö T et al. separated patients with mild and moderate dementia into three groups (including singing with rhythmic movements group, listening with remini...

    In addition to pharmacotherapy for dementia, there is a tendency of increasing researches using the intervention combining several different cognitive stimulations, which is called multisensory stimulation. Ozdemir L and his colleagues synthesized multisensory stimulations including MT using instrument with a light tempo, painting inanimate animate...

    • Rong Fang, Shengxuan Ye, Jiangtao Huangfu, David P. Calimag
    • 2017
  3. Overall, the current review demonstrates that music therapy can be a valuable strategy for treating patients with dementia, with its outcomes including improved cognitive function and...

  4. Nov 1, 2023 · Music helps improve cognitive functions in patients with dementia. •. Quality of life could be improved with the use of music for patients with dementia. •. Music helps reduce neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with dementia. Abstract. Dementia is a major cause of disability and dependency.

  5. Background: The use of music in cognitive interventions represents a possibility with potential worthy of further investigation in the field of aging, both in terms of prevention from dementia, in the phase of mild cognitive impairment, and in the treatment of overt dementia.

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  7. Mar 27, 2023 · The results showed that compared to different control groups, there is an improvement in cognitive functions after music therapy application. A greater effect was shown when patients are involved in the music making when using active music intervention (AMI).

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