APS

2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025

PTSD Symptomatology Moderates the Effects of Music on Stress Recovery

Washington, DC · May 2025

Poster · General

Session: Poster Session II

Authors

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