Effects of Relaxing Music on Salivary Cortisol Level after Psychological Stress

• DOI: 10.1196/annals.1284.045
• Publication Date: 2004-01-15T01:04:15Z
• Authors: STÉPHANIE KHALFA; SIMONE DALLA BELLA; MATHIEU ROY; ISABELLE PERETZ; SONIA J. LUPIEN
• Keywords: Silence; Stressor; Psychological stress

A bstract : The goal of the present study was to determine whether relaxing music (as compared silence) might facilitate recovery from a psychologically stressful task. To this aim, changes in salivary cortisol levels were regularly monitored 24 students before and after Trier Social Stress Test. data show that presence music, level ceased increase stressor, whereas silence it continued for 30 minutes.