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Alzheimer’s patients and hospital staff prescribed music in NHS trial – The Guardian
Exclusive: playlist based on listeners’ backgrounds and tastes found to lower heart rate, agitation and distress
Medical researchExclusive: playlist based on listeners backgrounds and tastes found to lower heart rate, agitation and distress
Bob Marley knew it when he sang on Trenchtown Rock: One good thing about music when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Now trials are under way at an NHS trust to see if an algorithm can curate music playlists to reduce suffering in Alzheimers patients as well as in stressed medical staff.
A test among people with dementia found an algorithm that prescribes songs based on listeners…
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