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Título
Music and emotion in Alzheimer’s disease
Autor(es)
Assunto
Emotion
Music
Dementia
Memory
Prosody
Clasificación UNESCO
3205.07 Neurología
Fecha de publicación
2019
Editor
BMC
Citación
Arroyo-Anlló, E.M., Dauphin, S., Fargeau, M.N. et al. Music and emotion in Alzheimer’s disease. Alz Res Therapy 11, 69 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13195-019-0523-y
Resumen
[EN] Background: Alzheimer’s disease may compromise several musical competences, though no clear data is available
in the scientific literature. Furthermore, music is capable of communicating basic emotions, but little is known
about the emotional aspect of music in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. We present a systematic investigation of
music processing in relation to extra-musical skills, in particular emotional skills in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.
Methods: We tested 30 patients with mild or moderate Alzheimer’s disease and 30 control subjects. We essentially
evaluated (a) musical competences, using the extra-linguistic test, Solfeggio test and the recognition test of musical
emotions—elaborated by our research team—and the Seashore test, and (b) emotional capacities using emotional
memory and emotional prosody tests—made by our research group.
Results: We significantly observed lower total results of every test assessing cognitive, emotional and music
competences in Alzheimer’s disease patients than those in control subjects, but the score of musical emotion
recognition test did not reach to a significant difference between the subjects groups.
Conclusions: Our findings found a global impairment of music competences in Alzheimer patients with cognitive
and emotional troubles. Nevertheless, the performances in the recognition test of musical emotions showed a trend
towards a performance difference. We can suggest that Alzheimer’s disease currently presents an aphaso-agnoso-
apractic-amusia syndrome.
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DOI
10.1186/s13195-019-0523-y
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