EUTERPE_adn is a social cooperation project with a vocation for human development, which is driven by the research team at sensogenomics. In 2019, the research project sensogenoma was launched to study the impact of music on the audience who attended experimental concerts in the Auditorium of Galicia, thanks to a collaboration with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Galicia.
Sensogenoma22 marked the launch of a unique and pioneering project to study the impact of music on health through experimental concerts. In this initiative, created by the Institute of Health Reseach in Santiago de Compostela, in collaboration with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Galicia, more than 4000 people have taken part and more than 4000 biological samples (blood, saliva and tears) have been taken from concert attendees. Senogenoma24 was a concert of music from films that also had the collaboration of the Banda de Música of Santiago de Compostela, the Univeristy of Minho and Mediaprobe, who provided wireless sensors to collect the heart rate and electrodermal activity of the audience.
Some results:
- Dozens of genes were detected that show alterations in their expression in saliva after musical stimulation.
- The genetic changes are particularly significant in patients with cognitive decline (dementia, Alzheimer’s).
- Music has exercised a compensatory effect on Alzheimer’s disease.
- Among the genes and processes that are modified by music, those commonly altered in patients with cognitive deterioration such as autophagia, as well as an important immunological response stand out.