Analysis on Relevant Music Therapy Elements and Its Effectiveness on Treating AD

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10.2991/assehr.k.211220.484How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Alzheimer’s disease; music therapy; emotion; meditation; familiarity

Abstract

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a serious but common health condition for old people, and it is different from normal aging. Finding an effective treatment and ultimate cure for AD has become a hot topic in the field of medicine and neuroscience nowadays. However, due to the complexity of the disease and characteristics of our neurons, identifying useful pharmacological treatments and implementing them into the clinial settings are difficult. Music therapy (MT), a non-pharmacological treatment, was proposed a long time ago and was believed to be useful for easing cognitive and mood symptoms of AD. Previous research has shown the rehabilitation effect of music on AD patients, but more detailed instruction on how to carry out music therapy and choose the right music pieces are needed. To contribute better in the music therapy field, this paper proposed two elements of music that therapists and researchers should consider: emotion and familiarity, and it also analyzed possible effects of different music therapeutic approaches on patients. Further investigations on how positive and negative emotional musics as well as familiar or unfamiliar music were needed due to deficiency of current research. Therapists should also consider finding more resultful strategies like individualized music treatment and combine MT with meditations.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yutian Zhang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/12/24
TI  - Analysis on Relevant Music Therapy Elements and Its Effectiveness on Treating AD
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 2799
EP  - 2802
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211220.484
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.484
ID  - Zhang2021
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