Marta Andrea Siragusa, Bruno Brizard, Paul-Armand Dujardin, Jean-Pierre Réméniéras, Frédéric Patat, Valérie Gissot, Vincent Camus, Catherine Belzung, Wissam El-Hage, Thomas Wosch, Thomas Desmidt
INTRODUCTION: Recent evidence suggests that biomechanical parameters of the brain, such as Brain Tissue Pulsatility (BTP), could be involved in emotional reactivity. However, no study has investigated the impact of an emotional task on BTP. We used the ultrasound method of Tissue Pulsatility Imaging (TPI) to assess changes in BTP to exciting and relaxing classical music, in a musical perception task, as a validated paradigm to assess emotional reactivity. METHODS: 25 healthy volunteers were exposed via earphones to four 5-minute musical excerpts (two exciting and two relaxing musical excerpts) presented in a randomized order and intersected by 5 silence periods...
April 2020: International Journal of Psychophysiology