title: Music psychopathology. VI. The course objective instrumental performance characteristics with psychiatric inpatients.
abstract: The impairment of musical expression due to mental disease is reversible with growing remission. This finding resulted from follow-up examinations of instrumental playings assessed by means of a polarity profile with 60 psychiatric inpatients and 14 controls. A follow-up comparison of objective performance characteristics as defined by careful analysis of the recordings did not reveal a meaningful variation. This is taken as a strong indication that even in severe psychopathologic alterations, learned motor patterns of music performance are fairly stable. A simple reduction in playing irregularities cannot explain the systematic influence of psychopathology on musical expression.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatrische Klinik der Universität München, BRD.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Steinberg
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fani
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Raith
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001076:Aptitude; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D009146:Music / Q000523:psychology*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales