Under investigation were 25 men and women at the age of 50 – 70 years with a beginning arteriosclerotic encephalopathy.

The patients were treated with both relaxing and activating Medical Resonance Therapy Music^®. There were 10 treatments in total, each treatment lasting from 10 to 30 minutes. Starting with a habituation phase of 10 min­utes the treatment was expanded step by step up to 30 minutes. During the first three treat­ments relaxing MRT-Music^® was given, in the following four treatments the patients received activating MRT-Music; during the last three treatments they received in the first 10 min­utes relaxing and in the following 20 minutes activating MRT-Music^®. During the whole time of treatment with Medi­cal Resonance Therapy Music^® the patients did not receive any medication effecting the central nervous system.


Results

From the third treatment on an average reduction of 5 heart beats per minute during the relaxing music (±1) and 3,1 beats per minute (±1) during activating music was registered.