Descripción del proyecto
Musicoterapia a medida para la gestión de la tensión arterial y la salud cardíaca
Las enfermedades cardiovasculares son la principal causa de muerte a nivel mundial. La hipertensión es el principal factor de riesgo para las enfermedades cardíacas, por lo que reducir la tensión arterial de los pacientes es fundamental. La música tiene el potencial de regular la frecuencia cardíaca y la tensión arterial. Sin embargo, los actuales métodos terapéuticos de escucha de música son muy laboriosos y se basan en la intuición de los terapeutas profesionales o no abordan la subjetividad y la especificidad esenciales para la reacción musical de cada individuo. El proyecto HEART.FM financiado con fondos europeos, está desarrollando una aplicación móvil cuyo objetivo es democratizar el acceso a musicoterapias médicas personalizadas basadas en la retroalimentación fisiológica. El proyecto aprovechará los avances en los monitores de ECG vestibles y los sensores de tensión arterial portátiles para proporcionar musicoterapia basada en la retroalimentación fisiológica individual de los usuarios correspondiente a los momentos emocionalmente importantes en su experiencia auditiva.
Objetivo
Cardiovascular disease is the world’s leading cause of death, and hypertension is its foremost medical risk factor. Reducing blood pressure in hypertensive patients has positive cardiovascular effects, and music listening offers non-pharmacological ways to regulate heart rate and blood pressure. Presently, the most effective way to administer music inventions with long-lasting effects is labor-intensive and relies on professional therapists’ intuitions, making it non-scalable to large cohorts. HEART.FM is an app-creation initiative to democratize access to personalized music medicine interventions, informed by physiological feedback. Current music therapy apps fail to address the subjectivity and specificity inherent in individual music response; a gap further exists between music therapy apps and physiological feedback. By leveraging advances in wearable ECG monitors and portable blood pressure sensors, HEART.FM will offer music therapy based on individual users’ physiological feedback around musical change points and transitions, which correspond to emotionally salient moments in music listening. HEART.FM exploits the music structure knowledge and cross-modal music-physiology analysis methods developed and trialed in the ERC project COSMOS to advance the state of the art by linking physiological feedback with computational music structure analysis to provide personalized music listening therapy to achieve targeted autonomic nervous system responses. A development goal will be to make HEART.FM ready for large-scale deployment in randomized, controlled research trials that can establish music-hypertension cause-effect relationships for healthy individuals as well as hypertensive patients. HEART.FM will benefit the research community by offering a crowdsourced portal for collecting research data in cardiovascular disease and music-based preventative therapies. The PoC will explore commercialization and market solutions in both music and medical sectors.
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ERC-POC - Proof of Concept GrantInstitución de acogida
WC2R 2LS London
Reino Unido