• Increased ability to learn in older people and people of middle-age with atherosclerotic encephalopathy: after 10 treatment sessions the ability to learn had improved by an average of 18%

• Improved reaction precision in older people and people of middle-age with atherosclerotic encephalopathy: after 10 treatment sessions the precision of reactions had improved by an average of 18%

• Increased psychomotoric speed in older people and people of middle-age with atherosclerotic encephalopathy: after 10 treatment sessions the psychomotoric speed had improved by an average of 9.6%

• Improved reaction speed in older people and people of middle-age with atherosclerotic encephalopathy: after 10 treatment sessions the reaction speed had improved by an average of 18%

• Improvement in the visual short-term memory in older people and people of middle-age with atherosclerotic encephalopathy: after 10 treatment sessions the visual short-term memory had improved by an average of 20%

• Improved visualmotoric coordination in older people and people of middle-age with atherosclerotic encephalopathy: after 10 treatment sessions the visualmotoric coordination had improved by an average of 18%

• Improvement of the auditory memory in older people and people of middle-age with atherosclerotic encephalopathy:
  after 10 treatment sessions the auditory memory had improved by an average of 8.1%

• Increased ability to concentrate in older people and people of middle-age with atherosclerotic encephalopathy: after 10 treatment sessions the ability to concentrate had improved by an average of 18%

• Reduction of the feeling of dizziness in older people and people of middle-age with atherosclerotic encephalopathy: of the 25 patients examined 20 reported attacks of dizziness. After treatment 14 patients were free from attacks of dizziness and 6 reported a significant improvement

• Reduction of anxiety in older people and people of middle-age after the relaxing musical preparation there was a 4-unit reduction in anxiety and after the activating musical preparations a reduction of 6 units

• Reduction of headaches in older people and people of middle-age with atherosclerotic encephalopathy: of the 25 patients examined 21 had headaches.
  After the treatment 15 patients were free of headaches, 5 experienced a significant improvement and one patient experienced no improvement

• Stimulation of the imagination in older people and people of middle-age with atherosclerotic encephalopathy: while hearing the music, many experienced e.g. ‘a wood’, ‘a lake’, ‘flowing water’, ‘sunlight’ and had many other positive experiences

• Dispersion of psycho-physiological manifestations of stress in older people and people of middle-age with atherosclerotic encephalopathy: the experience of deep muscular relaxation combined with a sensation of warmth and with ease and sleepiness; furthermore a significant reduction and/or complete dispersion of the symptoms: ‘bad mood’, ‘lethargy’, ‘tension’ and “touchiness”

• Improvement of the mental state of older people and people of middle-age with atherosclerotic encephalopathy: the evaluation showed, besides a dispersion of stress, the acquisition of distance from unpleasant things, the experience of gentleness, inner peace, a kind of freedom from care and a spiritual state of mind

• Slowing of the heart rate in older people and people of middle age with atherosclerotic encephalopathy: from the third session on, a reduction in the heart rate averaging 5 beats per minute was evident during the relaxing music, and averaging 3.1 beats per minute during the activating music

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