Dissertations and Theses @ UNI
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Keywords
Alzheimer's disease--Patients--Care; Music therapy--Research; Senile dementia--Patients--Care; Academic theses;
Abstract
Previous research has suggested that musical therapy temporarily improves the cognitive and perceptual functioning of individuals with varying forms of dementing illnesses. However, no research to date has focused on the effects of musical stimulation exclusively. Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate whether, and to what extent, a brief exposure to music might enhance the cognitive and perceptual functioning of clients with mild to moderate forms of Alzheimer's disease and dementia. It was hypothesized that following a brief exposure (6 minutes) to musical stimulation, all subjects (N = 9) would achieve higher scores on the following neuropsychological tests: Mattis Dementia Rating Scale, the Continuous Visual Memory Test, and the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test. Separate within subjects analyses of variance found no significant difference on any of the three tests in the A-B-A repeated measures design. Although it appeared that exposure to a musical stimulus did not lead to an improvement in neuropsychological test scores, an estimation of the experimental effect using the statistic Eta-Squared demonstrated that 27.16% of the variation in scores obtain on the Mattis Dementia Rating Scale could be attributed to the experimental manipulation. Interpretations of these findings are discussed along with limitations of the study and directions for future research.
Year of Submission
1997
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Department of Psychology
First Advisor
Jane Wong
Second Advisor
Linda Walsh
Third Advisor
Andrew Gilpin
Date Original
1997
Object Description
1 PDF file (65 leaves)
Copyright
©1997 Peter Leo Cuff
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Cuff, Peter Leo, "A Neuropsychological Assessment of Music Stimulation on Individuals With Dementia" (1997). Dissertations and Theses @ UNI. 2427.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/etd/2427
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