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Music Therapy for Dementia Patients: Tuned for Culture Difference

Music Therapy for Dementia Patients: Tuned for Culture Difference
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Author(s): Yuki Tanaka (Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan), Hiroki Nogawa (Japan Medical Information Network Association, Japan)and Hiroshi Tanaka (Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 23
Source title: Early Detection and Rehabilitation Technologies for Dementia: Neuroscience and Biomedical Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Jinglong Wu (Okayama University, Japan)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-559-9.ch033

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Abstract

Our results show that dementia patients tend to judge Japanese music as being played in a major key, while healthy subjects judged these songs as being in a minor key. Our results reveal characteristic responses of dementia patients to the Japanese music and provide evidence for the improvement of using music therapy for dementia patients by accounting for their Japanese culture.

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