Hyperventilation in Anticipatory Music Performance Anxiety

Hyperventilation complaints in music performance anxiety among classical music students.

OBJECTIVE Despite the importance of respiration and hyperventilation in anxiety disorders, research on breathing disturbances associated with hyperventilation is rare in the field of music performance anxiety (MPA, also known as stage fright). The only comparable study in this area reported a positive correlation between negative feelings of MPA and hyperventilation complaints during performanc...

Studer , R . K . ; Danuser , B . ; Hildebrandt , H . ; Arial , M . ; Wild , P . ; Gomez , P . Hyperventilation in anticipatory music performance anxiety

Music performance anxiety in classical musicians

Conclusion and future directions The present article provides only a bird’s eye view of the vast subject, which has grown exponentially in the recent past and is continuing to do so. Musical training and evidence-based music therapy improve sensorimotor, language and cog nitive functions in the non-musical domain. So far, the Western classical music tradition has been scientifically examined to...

Parameters for screening music performance anxiety.

OBJECTIVE To assess the discriminative capacity of the Kenny Music Performance Anxiety Inventory (K-MPAI), in its version adapted for Brazil, in a sample of 230 Brazilian adult musicians. METHOD The Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN) was used to assess the presence of social anxiety indicators, adopting it as the gold standard. The Mann-Whitney U test and the receiver operating characteristic (RO...

Brain activation during anticipatory anxiety in social anxiety disorder.

Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety during expectation of performance-related situations is an important feature of the psychopathology of social anxiety disorder (SAD). The neural basis of anticipatory anxiety in SAD has not been investigated in controlled studies. The current study used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate the neural correlates during the anticipation of p...