A Pilot Study Investigating the Effect of Music-Based Intervention on Depression and Anhedonia.

ABSTRACT: This study investigated the effect of a music-based intervention on depression and associated symptoms. Twenty individuals formally diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder and in a current Major Depressive Episode (11 females and 8 males; aged between 26 and 65 years) undertook a 5 weeks intervention consisting of music listening combined with rhythmic sensory stimulation. Participants listened to a set of designed instrumental music tracks embedded with low-frequency sounds (30-70 Hz). The stimuli were delivered for 30 min, 5 times per week, using a portable consumer device with built-in stereo speakers and a low-frequency transducer, which allowed the low-frequency sounds embedded in the music to be experienced as a mild vibrotactile sensation around the lower back. Changes from baselin

SUBMITTER: Braun Janzen T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6517496 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature