Influence of Musicotherapy on Mental Status and Cognitional Function of Patient with Depression Disease

With the increasing pace of life and stress of work, more people are growing mental depression disease that is harmful physically and mentally. However, traditional medicines do not have good effect on depression disease, mean while have relatively big side effects. Therefore, this work studied the influence of musicotherapy on mental status and cognitional function of patient with depression disease. Twenty subjects with depression disease were studied. Spontaneous EEG signals and P300 inducted EEG signals were acquired and analyzed for each subjects before, during, and after they took musicotherapy. Results showed that short-term musicotherapy have obvious improvement for subjects´ mental status, but not much influence for their memorial or cognitional function.