APS
2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025
PTSD Symptomatology Moderates the Effects of Music on Stress Recovery
- Nicole Santino
Southern Connecticut State University - Katherine Marsland
Southern Connecticut State University - Walter Stutzman
Southern Connecticut State University - Tahlea Gee
Southern Connecticut State University - Niera West
Southern Connecticut State University
Abstract
We examined the effects of vagus stimulation music (440 vs 432 Hz) on post-stress recovery among individuals with low versus high levels of PTSD. Regardless of tuning, three-minutes of classical music had a positive impact on physiological measures of stress recovery, but only among those with low levels of PTSD.
Stress