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Machine learning models were then trained on these signals to classify the presence and severity of AD and to detect residual emotion-specific physiological responses elicited by music.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Physiological reactivity to music declined with disease progression, with positive emotions eliciting more distinct responses than negative ones. The Random Forest classifier distinguished AD patients from healthy controls with 70.5% accuracy, while the Na\u00efve Bayes model predicted severity with 65.6% accuracy, demonstrating that ML models can detect subtle music-evoked physiological differences even in individuals with AD.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Music-evoked physiological signals reflect the hierarchical disruption of emotion-related neural circuits in AD and hold promise as complementary biomarkers for disease presence and stage. 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