Emotional foundations of music as a non-pharmacological pain management tool in modern medicine

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1989-1999

  Bernatzky, Guenther ^a   Presch, Michaela ^a   Anderson, Mary ^b   Panksepp, Jaak ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute chronic pain; Depression; Emotions; Multimodal pain therapy; Music; Music therapy; Neuroscience; Postoperative pain; Surgery; Therapy effectiveness; Wellbeing

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; MUSIC; MUSIC THERAPY; PAIN; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE;

EID: 80053125085     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2011.06.005     Document Type: Review

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