Emotional Health and Stress Management
James M. Rippe in Lifestyle Medicine, 2019
Melodic classical music improved hostility, fatigue, sadness, tension, and relaxation while decreasing vigor. There was no worsening of any other marks. After 30 minutes of classical music, the stress hormone cortisol dropped by a significant 40 percent. Interestingly, 30 minutes of Techno-music (Cyber Trip, Techno Shock, Techno Magnetico) increased cortisol levels by 40 percent.80 A report on the effect of different sounds on anxiety and stress levels identified a six-point improvement with silence as well as a three-point improvement with self-selected music. Heavy metal music worsened it by three points. The highest improvement (eight points) came from individuals assigned to listen to classical music.81
Conversation with Benjamin Zephaniah
Mary Butterton, Colwyn Trevarthen in Listening to Music in Psychotherapy, 2018
I use everything as an instrument ... I’ve still got my body and if I can’t do that I’ll still make music in my head. I just think human bein’s need music ... every culture has music. I’ve met people who don’t like one kind of music or another. But I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t like music at all ... There’s always something. It could be the most simple music or the most complicated. When I don’t like some music I just say ‘It’s not for me. It’s not my thing’. Most music is OK in fact. If people like loud crashin’ heavy metal music I will try and understand it and try and find out what is in it for that group of people.
Special Problems of Substance Abuse in Adolescence
Frank Lynn Iber in Alcohol and Drug Abuse as Encountered in Office Practice, 2020
Adolescents in a chemically dependent psychiatric population prefer unconventional music of the heavy metal type, compared to adolescents from the same community without similar chemical dependence.12 A study of 63 adolescent rapists in California indicated drug abuse as a major factor that needed to be addressed as part of rehabilitation.13
Appraisal of heavy metal toxicity in surface water with human health risk by a novel approach: a study on an urban river in vicinity to industrial areas of Bangladesh
Published in Toxin Reviews, 2021
Ram Proshad, Saiful Islam, Tanmoy Roy Tusher, Dan Zhang, Sujan Khadka, Jianing Gao, Satyajit Kundu
Heavy metals are a group of metals or metalloids which possess a specific density greater than 5 g/cm3 (Monisha ET AL. 2014). The most commonly detected heavy metals in industrial effluents include arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cr), copper (Cu), lead (Pb), nickel (Ni) and zinc (Zn) (Lambert ET AL. 2000). Heavy metals are of great concern for the aquatic environment since these metals are highly persistence and have the propensity to bioaccumulate in the food chain (Rahman ET AL. 2013, Islam ET AL. 2015b, Ali ET AL. 2019). Along with other sources, continuous release of a large amount of untreated industrial effluents increases the heavy metal concentrations in water and exerts severe toxic effects on aquatic organisms, which ultimately leads to the complete disruption of normal ecosystem function (Islam ET AL. 2015b; Raknuzzaman ET AL. 2016, Ali ET AL. 2018, Kumar ET AL. 2019). Moreover, these toxic heavy metals can enter the human body not only through ingestion of contaminated water and/or aquatic organisms but also via dermal contact with the contaminated water (Saha ET AL. 2019). Exposure to these toxic metals can lead to physical, muscular and neurological disorders (Ali ET AL. 2019, Saha and Paul 2019), while long-term exposure can also cause deadly diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, and cancer (Mishra ET AL. 2010). Thus, proper assessment of surface water quality along with the heavy metal pollution load is of immense importance for the protection of the environment and human health.
Music and substance use: A meta-analytic review
Published in Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 2020
Chrysalis L. Wright, Tia Ball, Kaleigh Kambour, Lygia Machado, Taylor Defrancesco, Carissa Hamilton, Jeanette Hyatt, Jacquelynne Dauk
Music format was coded as audio, music videos, music preference, music performance venue, night clubs, or general music media. Music genre was coded as country music, electronica (dance, techno), high-brow (classical, jazz, blues, soul), reggae, rock (alternative, heavy metal, rock, punk), urban (R&B, rap, hip-hop), Top Charts, and pop music. However, many studies examined multiple genres in their study that could not be separated and were coded as “multiple genres.” These studies included such genres as alternative, rap, and heavy metal. Some studies also did not specify the genre included in their study and were coded as “not specified.” Each study was also coded for the research design that best described the study (e.g., longitudinal, cross-sectional, experimental), the location of data collection, and publication year.
Antioxidant and cytoprotective properties of loganic acid isolated from seeds of Strychnos potatorum L. against heavy metal induced toxicity in PBMC model
Published in Drug and Chemical Toxicology, 2022
Alagarsamy Abirami, Simran Sinsinwar, Perumal Rajalakshmi, Pemaiah Brindha, Yamajala B. R. D. Rajesh, Vellingiri Vadivel
Heavy metals are metallic elements that have relatively high density as compared to water and also exhibit specific weight more than 5 g/cm3. Heavy metals directly or indirectly discharged into environment with rapid development of various industries including mining and smelting of metalliferous, surface finishing industry, energy and fuel production, fertilizer and pesticide industry, leather, aerospace and atomic energy (Volesky 1990). Heavy metals cannot be destroyed biologically and are only transformed from one oxidative state to another (Alkorta et al. 2004). Heavy metal toxicity in living organisms involve generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) by auto-oxidation and Fenton’s reaction, block essential functional groups and displace necessary metal ions from bio-molecules (Schutzendubel and Polle 2001).