Under investigation were 25 men and women at the age of 50 – 70 years with a beginning atherosclerotic encephalopathy.

The patients were treated with both relaxing and activating Medical Resonance Therapy Music. There were 10 treatments in total, each treatment lasting from 10 to 30 minutes. Start­ing with a habituation phase of 10 minutes the treatment was expanded step by step up to 30 minutes. During the first three treatments relaxing MRT-Music was given, in the fol­low­ing four treatments the patients received ac­ti­vat­ing MRT-Music; during the last three treat­ments then they received in the first 10 min­utes relaxing and in the following 20 minutes activating MRT-Music.

During the whole time of treatment with Medi­cal Resonance Therapy Music the patients did not receive any medication effecting the central nervous system.


Results

The anxiety levels were evaluated using the Spielberger-Khanin-Scale, documenting the following effects of the Medical Resonance Therapy Music: after the relaxing music a re­duc­tion of the reactive anxiety by 4 units (±0.8) was registered and after the activating music a reduction by 6 units (±0.65).




Investigators:

Prof. Dr. med. A. Reznikov
Prof. Dr. med. G. Butenko
Dr. med. N. Bachinskaya
Dr. med. S. Litovchenko