Descrizione del progetto
Musicoterapia personalizzata per la gestione della pressione sanguigna e la salute cardiaca
Le malattie cardiovascolari sono la principale causa di morte a livello globale. Dal momento che l’ipertensione è considerata il principale fattore di rischio per la cardiopatia, risulta fondamentale ridurre la pressione sanguigna nei pazienti. La musica ha il potenziale di regolare il battito cardiaco e la pressione sanguigna. Tuttavia, gli attuali metodi della terapia dell’ascolto sono laboriosi, dipendono dall’intuito dei terapeuti professionisti oppure non riescono a rispondere alla soggettività e alla specificità necessarie a una reazione musicale individuale. Il progetto HEART.FM finanziato dall’UE, sta sviluppando un’applicazione mobile volta a democratizzare l’accesso a interventi medico-musicali personalizzati basati su feedback fisiologici. Il progetto sfrutterà i progressi compiuti dai monitor ECG indossabili e dai sensori portatili di pressione sanguigna, fornendo una musicoterapia basata sul feedback fisiologico dei singoli utenti che corrisponde a momenti emotivamente importanti nella loro esperienza di ascolto.
Obiettivo
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 GrantIstituzione ospitante
WC2R 2LS London
Regno Unito