Music Intervention Leads to Increased Insular Connectivity and Improved Clinical Symptoms in Schizophrenia.

ABSTRACT: Schizophrenia is a syndrome that is typically accompanied by delusions and hallucinations that might be associated with insular pathology. Music intervention, as a complementary therapy, is commonly used to improve psychiatric symptoms in the maintenance stage of schizophrenia. In this study, we employed a longitudinal design to assess the effects of listening to Mozart music on the insular functional connectivity (FC) in patients with schizophrenia. Thirty-six schizophrenia patients were randomly divided into two equal groups as follows: the music intervention (MTSZ) group, which received a 1-month music intervention series combined with antipsychotic drugs, and the no-music intervention (UMTSZ) group, which was treated solely with antipsychotic drugs. Resting-state functional magnetic re

SUBMITTER: He H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5787137 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature