The Benefits of Music Listening for Induced State Anxiety: Behavioral and Physiological Evidence
Huang B, Hao X, Long S, Ding R, Wang J, Liu Y, Guo S, Lu J, He M, Yao D
Brain sciences · 12 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- Randomized controlled trial (classified by our AI screen)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
- Government
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Government
- Department of Science and Technology of Sichuan Province
- Government
- Higher Education Discipline Innovation Project
- Nonprofit
- the 111 project
- Grants
- Higher Education Discipline Innovation Project (#B#12027); Department of Science and Technology of Sichuan Province (2021YFS0135); National Natural Science Foundation of China (2020ZYD013); Higher Education Discipline Innovation Project (2020ZYD013); National Natural Science Foundation of China (B12027); Department of Science and Technology of Sichuan Province (B12027); Department of Science and Technology of Sichuan Province (2020ZYD013); National Natural Science Foundation of China (61527815)
Based on 4 listed funder(s) and full-text disclosure statement.
Publication
- Published
- 2021-10-09 · Brain Sci · vol. 11 · issue 10 · p. 1332
- Publisher
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
- Cited
- 20 citations · more than 83% of similar papers · 1.7× the field average
- References
- 78 works
- Access
- Open access (journal) · CC-BY
- Research areas
- Music Therapy and Health · Neuroscience and Music Perception · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Keywords
- Anxiety, Psychology, Music therapy, Stimulus (psychology), Psychological intervention, Active listening, Audiology, Occipital lobe, Electroencephalography, Neuroscience, Cognitive psychology, Clinical psychology, Medicine, Psychotherapist, Psychiatry
10 authors
From CN
- Binxin HuangUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of China
- Xiaoting HaoSichuan University; West China Hospital of Sichuan University
- Siyu LongUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of China
- Rui DingUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of China
- Junce WangUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of China
- Yan LiuUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Abstract
Background
Some clinical studies have indicated that neutral and happy music may relieve state anxiety. However, the brain mechanisms by which these effective interventions in music impact state anxiety remain unknown.
Methods
In this study, we selected music with clinical effects for therapy, and 62 subjects were included using the evoked anxiety paradigm. After evoking anxiety with a visual stimulus, all subjects were randomly divided into three groups (listening to happy music, neutral music and a blank stimulus), and EEG signals were acquired.
Results
We found that different emotional types of music might have different mechanisms in state anxiety interventions. Neutral music had the effect of alleviating state anxiety. The brain mechanisms supported that neutral music ameliorating state anxiety was associated with decreased power spectral density of the occipital lobe and increased brain functional connectivity between the occipital lobe and frontal lobe. Happy music also had the effect of alleviating state anxiety, and the brain mechanism was associated with enhanced brain functional connectivity between the occipital lobe and right temporal lobe.
Conclusions
This study may be important for a deep understanding of the mechanisms associated with state anxiety music interventions and may further contribute to future clinical treatment using nonpharmaceutical interventions.
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