Alzheimer Disease and Music-Therapy: An Interesting Therapeutic Challenge and Proposal

Aligizakis Eftychios; Sivaropoulos Nektarios; Gryllaki Nikoleta

doi:10.4236/aad.2021.101001

The Treatment Of Alzheimer In The Context Of Musicotherapy

International Archives of Medicine ◽

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 ◽

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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.

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P3-298: A randomized controlled trial of music therapy in managing behavioral symptoms in Alzheimer disease

Alzheimer s & Dementia ◽

10.1016/j.jalz.2015.06.1671 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 11 (7S_Part_16) ◽

pp. P749-P749 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ging-Yuek Robin Hsiung ◽

Kevin Kirkland ◽

Susan G. Summers ◽

B. Lynn Beattie ◽

Claudia Jacova

Keyword(s):

Randomized Controlled Trial ◽

Alzheimer Disease ◽

Music Therapy ◽

Controlled Trial ◽

Behavioral Symptoms ◽

Randomized Controlled

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Thoughts on "Experience of Space in Japan." Implications for Music Therapy

Voices A World Forum for Music Therapy ◽

10.15845/voices.v6i3.278 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Isabelle Mairiaux

Keyword(s):

Music Therapy ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Research Study ◽

Life Experiences ◽

Research Process ◽

Japanese Culture ◽

University Environment ◽

Therapeutic Challenge ◽

Open Mind ◽

The Future

This article presents thoughts on the experience of space, developed from a research study I have been doing during two years immersed in a very singular context where the familiar university environment contrasted with the – for me – completely unknown Japanese culture. The research study explains my motivation as well as my theme of the research: "the experience of space." The influence that my situation of being immersed in Japanese culture had on my hypothesis and research process are also developed. The study introduces some aspects of my experience of space in two different contexts: the context of everyday life experiences in Japan and the context of the butoh dance. Each context helped me to discover aspects of the experience of space, and possible implications for the music therapy context are then developed. In the study I sum up some of the discoveries underlining the negative and positive aspects this research process has led to. Finally, I evoke the learning of "humility," which is the dimension of the process most difficult to share in this article. The research study brought up some interesting subjects to investigate more in the future. One important discovery was the interdependency between perception and language (as a part of culture) and the way this implies a special attention in the music therapy context. Another interesting remark concerns the concept of boundary, and I argue that the Japanese concept of "Ma" is precious in relation to the therapeutic challenge of approaching this concept with an open mind.

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Structural and Chemical Studies of Pathological Fibers in Human Neurofibrillary Degeneration

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s042482010012031x ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

pp. 726-729

Author(s):

K.S. Kosik ◽

L.K. Duffy ◽

S. Bakalis ◽

C. Abraham ◽

D.J. Selkoe

Keyword(s):

Monoclonal Antibodies ◽

Alzheimer Disease ◽

Human Brain ◽

Neurofibrillary Tangles ◽

Morphological Analysis ◽

High Specificity ◽

Cytoskeletal Proteins ◽

Neuritic Plaque ◽

Protein Chemistry ◽

Chemical Studies

The major structural lesions of the human brain during aging and in Alzheimer disease (AD) are the neurofibrillary tangles (NFT) and the senile (neuritic) plaque. Although these fibrous alterations have been recognized by light microscopists for almost a century, detailed biochemical and morphological analysis of the lesions has been undertaken only recently. Because the intraneuronal deposits in the NFT and the plaque neurites and the extraneuronal amyloid cores of the plaques have a filamentous ultrastructure, the neuronal cytoskeleton has played a prominent role in most pathogenetic hypotheses.The approach of our laboratory toward elucidating the origin of plaques and tangles in AD has been two-fold: the use of analytical protein chemistry to purify and then characterize the pathological fibers comprising the tangles and plaques, and the use of certain monoclonal antibodies to neuronal cytoskeletal proteins that, despite high specificity, cross-react with NFT and thus implicate epitopes of these proteins as constituents of the tangles.

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The Evolution of Music Therapy

Musik- Tanz und Kunsttherapie ◽

10.1026/0933-6885/a000221 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 26 (4) ◽

pp. 207-221

Author(s):

Wolfgang Mastnak

Keyword(s):

Music Therapy ◽

Evidence Based Medicine ◽

Wide Spectrum ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Modern Music ◽

Guided Imagery And Music ◽

Theoretical Perspectives ◽

International Importance ◽

Evolution Of Music ◽

Based Medicine

Abstract. Five overlapping eras or stages can be distinguished in the evolution of music therapy. The first one refers to the historical roots and ethnological sources that have influenced modern meta-theoretical perspectives and practices. The next stage marks the heterogeneous origins of modern music therapy in the 20th century that mirror psychological positions and novel clinical ideas about the healing power of music. The subsequent heyday of music therapeutic models and schools of thought yielded an enormous variety of concepts and methods such as Nordoff–Robbins music therapy, Orff music therapy, analytic music therapy, regulatory music therapy, guided imagery and music, sound work, etc. As music therapy gained in international importance, clinical applications required research on its therapeutic efficacy. According to standards of evidence-based medicine and with regard to clearly defined diagnoses, research on music therapeutic practice was the core of the fourth stage of evolution. The current stage is characterized by the emerging epistemological dissatisfaction with the paradigmatic reductionism of evidence-based medicine and by the strong will to discover the true healing nature of music. This trend has given birth to a wide spectrum of interdisciplinary hermeneutics for novel foundations of music therapy. Epigenetics, neuroplasticity, regulatory and chronobiological sciences, quantum physical philosophies, universal harmonies, spiritual and religious views, and the cultural anthropological phenomenon of esthetics and creativity have become guiding principles. This article should not be regarded as a historical treatise but rather as an attempt to identify theoretical landmarks in the evolution of modern music therapy and to elucidate the evolution of its spirit.

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