New research from the University of Utah suggests that music-based treatments could be of help to Alzheimer’s disease patients, as certain songs might be effective in relieving anxiety in people who have dementia.
A report from Science Daily started by documenting what inspired the researchers — earlier research that had shown how personalized music could impact the mood of dementia patients. For the new study, the University of Utah team built on that previous work and looked at how the attentional network in the brain’s salience region could be affected by music. This involved asking participants in the study to choose certain songs that are “meaningful” to them, and training both the patients and their caregivers on how to play the curated musical selection on a portable media player.
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