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A Brighter Tune

From the pages of Scientific American. A Brighter Tune. Classical music may lift depressed patients' spirits. Add “therapist” to Beethoven’s list of talents. After listening to the master’s third and fifth sonatas, depressed patients in a recent study felt happier. The research, presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, found that classical music benefited both genders and that the music gave the biggest boost to educated and younger people. This study supports previous findings that music therapy can be an effective and economical way to treat patients. A recently published review of the literature found that four out of five studies showed patients who had been given music therapy experienced a greater reduction in depression than those who had been randomly assigned to a different type of therapy. “Music has a specific potential that can be used therapeutically to promote well-being and alleviate symptoms like depression, anxiety, stress, anger and agitation,” reports the Beethoven study’s co-author, Pasadena City College neuroscientist Parvaneh Mohammadian. The author is Corey Binns. Reproduced with permission. Copyright 2008 Scientific American, a division of Nature America, Inc. All rights reserved.

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1. Listening to classical music as a way of alleviating the symptoms of depression was shown to work best in which population?

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2. Which theoretical approach to therapy best seems to encompass Mohammadian’s music therapy?

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3. In testing the efficacy of music therapy compared to other types of therapy, participants in research studies were randomly assigned to receive a specific kind of therapy. The therapy type, then, is the _____ in the study

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4. Which of the following would not be an advantage of music therapy in the treatment of psychological disorders?

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5. It may seem like music therapy in particular and even “talk” therapies in general can’t really be that effective. Are psychotherapies effective for treating disorders?

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