U.O. Pronto Soccorso e Medicina d'Urgenza, Dipartimento di Emergenza-Urgenza, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Parma, Parma, Italy.
Eur J Intern Med. 2011 Aug;22(4):371-4. doi: 10.1016/j.ejim.2011.02.019. Epub 2011 Mar 22.
Although the potential influence of music in eliciting organic reactions has been appreciated since the ancient Assyrian and Greek cultures, its relationship with body responses has been believed for long to belong to the field of magic. Growing experimental evidence now attests that some kind of music might indeed modulate several cardiac and neurological functions, as well as trigger biochemical measurable stress-reducing effects in certain individuals, mostly depending on their subjective musical education. On this basis, music has been increasingly used as a therapeutic tool in the treatment of different diseases in healthy and ill subjects over recent years (e.g., the so called "Mozart effect"), although the underlying scientific background is still poorly understood. The aim of this article is to review the current scientific evidences about the complex and multifaceted interactions between music and human biology.
尽管音乐在引发有机反应方面的潜在影响自古亚述和希腊文化以来就被人们所欣赏，但它与身体反应的关系长期以来一直被认为属于魔法领域。越来越多的实验证据证明，某些类型的音乐确实可能调节多种心脏和神经系统功能，并在某些个体中引发可测量的生化应激减轻效应，这主要取决于他们的主观音乐教育。基于这一点，近年来，音乐作为一种治疗工具在健康和患病受试者的各种疾病治疗中得到了越来越多的应用（例如，所谓的“莫扎特效应”），尽管其潜在的科学背景仍知之甚少。本文旨在综述音乐与人类生物学之间复杂而多方面的相互作用的当前科学证据。
