TY - JOUR
T1 - Can music enhance awareness in unresponsive people with severe dementia? An exploratory case series using behavioral, physiological and neurophysiological measures
AU - Sun, Yanan
AU - Baird, Amee
AU - Gelding, Rebecca
AU - de Wit, Bianca
AU - Thompson, William Forde
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Australian Research Council [DP190102978]; National Health and Medical Research Council and Australian Research Council Dementia Research Development Fellowship [APP1104833].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - In five people with severe dementia, we measured their behavioral and physiological responses to familiar/unfamiliar music and speech, and measured ERP responses to subject's own name (SON) after exposure to familiar/unfamiliar music or noise. We observed more frequent behavioral responses to personally-significant stimuli than non-personally-significant stumuli, and higher skin temperatures for music than non-music conditions. The control group showed typical ERPs to SON, regardless of auditory exposure. ERP measures were unavailable for the dementia group given challenges of measuring EEG in this population. The study highlights the potential for personally-significant auditory stimuli in enhancing responsiveness of people with severe dementia.
AB - In five people with severe dementia, we measured their behavioral and physiological responses to familiar/unfamiliar music and speech, and measured ERP responses to subject's own name (SON) after exposure to familiar/unfamiliar music or noise. We observed more frequent behavioral responses to personally-significant stimuli than non-personally-significant stumuli, and higher skin temperatures for music than non-music conditions. The control group showed typical ERPs to SON, regardless of auditory exposure. ERP measures were unavailable for the dementia group given challenges of measuring EEG in this population. The study highlights the potential for personally-significant auditory stimuli in enhancing responsiveness of people with severe dementia.
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U2 - 10.1080/13554794.2021.1966045
DO - 10.1080/13554794.2021.1966045
M3 - Article
C2 - 34455925
AN - SCOPUS:85113746123
SN - 1355-4794
VL - 27
SP - 354
EP - 365
JO - Neurocase
JF - Neurocase
IS - 4
ER -