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In this chapter, we describe a study assessing the emotional response of terminally ill cancer patients to a music therapy (MT) intervention in a randomized controlled trial. Instantaneous emotional indicators in the form of a coordinate in the arousal–valence plane were extracted from the patients’ brain activity data. The emotional indicators were analysed in order to quantify the overall emotional effect of MT on the patients compared to controls, as well as the relative effect of the different MT techniques applied during the MT intervention. The intervention produced a significant increase in positivity and arousal, while no significant changes were found in controls. These results can be interpreted as a positive emotional effect of MT in palliative care patients. Grounded on the results of this study, we propose a music-based intervention protocol for improving the emotional state of patients in palliative care.
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Ramirez-Melendez, R. (2023). Emotions and Music in Palliative Care. In: Neurocognitive Music Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48635-7_6
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