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

Dementia ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 619-634 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphane Guetin ◽  
Kevin Charras ◽  
Alain Berard ◽  
Christophe Arbus ◽  
Patrick Berthelon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Expert Group

Technological prospecting of music therapy in Alzheimer's disease

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (16) ◽  
pp. e443101622316
Author(s):  
Murilo Bastos ◽  
Kelby Cavalheiro de Mendonça ◽  
Valquiria Camargo Lins ◽  
Eduardo Muzzolon ◽  
Deise Mara Soares ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Memory Loss ◽  
Active Therapy ◽  
Pharmacological Interventions ◽  
Limited Efficacy ◽  
Drug Treatments ◽  
The Subject

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by cognitive impairment and progressive memory loss and drug treatments have limited efficacy. Thus, non-pharmacological interventions, such as music therapy, have shown to be promising as supporting pharmacological treatment and, therefore, may arouse commercial interest regarding the development of this type of product. Thus, this study aims to carry out a patentometric survey on patent registrations with music therapy in the treatment of AD. A systematic search was carried out from 2000 to 2020 on the Orbti-Questel website, searching for documents referring to music therapies in AD. The terms “Alzheimer music methodology active therapy” and “Alzheimer music methodology passive therapy” were used. After searching, reading, and excluding duplicate results, we found four patent families referring to music therapy in AD and all were selected as a result, which was considered little compared to the number of studies published on the subject.

scholarly journals Music Therapy Using Singing Training Improves Psychomotor Speed in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease: A Neuropsychological and fMRI Study

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 296-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masayuki Satoh ◽  
Toru Yuba ◽  
Ken-ichi Tabei ◽  
Yukari Okubo ◽  
Hirotaka Kida ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Therapy Group ◽  
Sleep Time ◽  
Angular Gyrus ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Fmri Study ◽  
Therapy Intervention

Background/Aims: To investigate the effect of singing training on the cognitive function in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. Methods: Ten AD patients (mean age 78.1 years) participated in music therapy using singing training once a week for 6 months (music therapy group). Each session was performed with professional musicians using karaoke and a unique voice training method (the YUBA Method). Before and after the intervention period, each patient was assessed by neuropsychological batteries, and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was performed while the patients sang familiar songs with a karaoke device. As the control group, another 10 AD patients were recruited (mean age 77.0 years), and neuropsychological assessments were performed twice with an interval of 6 months. Results: In the music therapy group, the time for completion of the Japanese Raven's Colored Progressive Matrices was significantly reduced (p = 0.026), and the results obtained from interviewing the patients' caregivers revealed a significant decrease in the Neuropsychiatric Inventory score (p = 0.042) and a prolongation of the patients' sleep time (p = 0.039). The fMRI study revealed increased activity in the right angular gyrus and the left lingual gyrus in the before-minus-after subtraction analysis of the music therapy intervention. Conclusion: Music therapy intervention using singing training may be useful for dementia patients by improving the neural efficacy of cognitive processing.

scholarly journals The Treatment Of Alzheimer In The Context Of Musicotherapy

10.3823/2339 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurício Caxias de Souza ◽  
Alany Bezerra da Rocha Alves ◽  
Dereck Sena de Lima ◽  
Lúcia Raiza Feitosa Alves de Oliveira ◽  
Juliana Kelly Batista da Silva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Alzheimer Disease ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Art Therapy ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Complementary Therapy ◽  
Behavioral Symptoms ◽  
Symptomatic Control

Objective: to explain in the scientific productions about the effects of music therapy in the symptomatic control of Alzheimer's disease. Method: this is an integrative review with time cut from 1998 to 2017, carried out in the database: Web of Science, PubMed, EBSCO Information Service, Scopus, SciELO, BIREME e LILACS, descriptors: art therapy, Alzheimer disease; music therapy, nursing. Through the search question “The music therapy brings beneficial results for patients with Alzheimer's disease”. The articles were carefully analyzed with an adapted instrument considering their methodological characteristics and levels of evidence. Results: fourteen articles were selected, twelve in foreign journals and two in national journals on complementary therapy and music therapy in the treatment of dementia/Alzheimer's disease. Conclusion: Music therapy is effective in controlling anxiety, aggression, agitation and other typical Alzheimer's behavioral symptoms.  Descriptors: Art Therapy; Alzheimer Disease; Music Therapy. Nursing.

scholarly journals Reaching the Socially Isolated Person with Alzheimer's Disease Through Group Music Therapy - A Case Report

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicky Abad
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Case Report ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Institutional Care ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
Group Music Therapy ◽  
Socially Isolated ◽  
Specific Unit

The purpose of this report is to present a case on John, an 82 year old man with Alzheimer's disease, who resides in a dementia specific unit of a nursing home. People with dementia who require institutional care are often at risk of social isolation, due to the regressive nature of the disease, and the potential of developing behavioural disturbances. This case story demonstrates how group music therapy can be individually tailored to meet the needs of people with dementia who are socially isolated as a result of behavioural challenges, including aggressive and agitating behaviours, and therefore improve the quality of the person's life.

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