Investigation into the effects of Classical Turkish Music on galvanic skin response and skin temperature of schizophrenic patients

This study was conducted to investigate whether two electrophysiological signals, which are galvanic skin response (GSR) and skin temperature could be altered when exposed to different auditory stimuli such as Classical Turkish Music (CTM) and acoustic white noise. We measured physiological responses of the twenty-three schizophrenic patients and twenty-three healthy subjects in rest and auditory stimulation conditions. Our results showed that patients have greater skin temperature values than controls. We found elevated skin conductivity in response to the white noise and CTM exposure in both groups. Although schizophrenic patients had greater values of skin temperature, healthy subjects exhibited greater skin conductivity in response to the white noise and CTM exposure than did patients. In conclusion, our study has shown that skin conductance responses to CTM might be used as an index of person’s stress level and this type of stimuli could be called as relaxing music.