Music Therapy Using Singing Training Improves Psychomotor Speed in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease: A Neuropsychological and fMRI Study
Satoh M, Yuba T, Tabei K, Okubo Y, Kida H, Sakuma H, Tomimoto H
Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders extra · 66 citations
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How it was studied
- Design
- Controlled clinical trial (classified by our AI screen)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Possibly industry funded
- Government
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- Authors
- At least one author declares a financial tie to industry
- Grants
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (25870325)
Based on 1 listed funder(s) and full-text disclosure statement.
Publication
- Published
- 2015-09-03 · Dement Geriatr Cogn Dis Extra · vol. 5 · issue 3 · pp. 296–308
- Publisher
- Karger Publishers
- Cited
- 110 citations · more than 96% of similar papers · 7.0× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 32 works
- Access
- Open access (journal) · CC-BY-NC-ND
- Research areas
- Music Therapy and Health · Neuroscience and Music Perception · Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Keywords
- Music therapy, Singing, Neuropsychology, Dementia, Psychology, Audiology, Functional magnetic resonance imaging, Medicine, Cognition, Physical medicine and rehabilitation, Physical therapy, Psychiatry, Disease, Internal medicine, Neuroscience
7 authors
From GB, JP
- Masayuki SatohDementia UK
- Toru YubaMie University
- Ken‐ichi TabeiDementia UK
- Yukari OkuboMie University
- Hirotaka KidaDementia UK
- Hajime SakumaMie University
Abstract
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.
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