Populations
Research shows that music therapy with this population has been known to rehabilitate speech and gait
What are stroke/CVA patients?
Music interaction is known to increase levels of these hormones in your brain
What are serotonin and dopamine?
These researchers recently published an article on the effects of music therapy with mothers who are in residential treatment for substance use disorder
Who are Gretchen Benner, Miriam Tart, and Gabby Jones?
This approach is known for its effectiveness with those who have experienced stroke or brain injuries and encourages the use of rhythm and music for the purpose of rehabilitation
What is NMT?
These are the staff members at PMT
Who are Gretchen, Miriam, Molli, and Gabby?
Research shows that music therapy with this population has been known to slow progression of said disease, improve memory or recall, and increase quality of life through social and emotional interaction
What is dementia?
Music interaction is known to decrease levels of this hormone in the brain?
What is cortisol?
This researcher is known as the "father of music therapy"
Who is E. Thayer Gaston?
This approach is known for its centered approach on individuals as human beings and an equal collaboration of treatment
What is humanistic music therapy?
This staff member once scared off an alligator by running in flip flops
Who is Gabby?
Research shows that music therapy with this population has been known to increase social and emotional development and integration of senses
What is autism?
This part of the brain is known for processing sound
What is the auditory cortex?
This researcher is currently a professor of Neuroscience and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Toronto and published the Oxford Handbook of Neurologic Music Therapy in 2014
Who is Michael Thaut?
This approach is known for using music to reinforce or modify behaviors and is very structured in its practice
What is cognitive behavioral music therapy?
This staff member reported a motivation to do the sidestep for an entire song
Who is Molli?
Research shows that music therapy with this population has been known to decrease maladaptive behaviors, improve self-expression and concept of identity, and provide a sense of control
What is underserved youth?
This part of the brain is known for processing tone and pitch
What is the temporal lobe?
This researcher is the Director of Art & Music Therapy at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, OH, where she began the program twenty-eight years ago. She is known for her advocacy for medical music therapy!
What is analytical music therapy?
This staff member considered moving to the Virgin Islands
Who is Miriam?
Research shows that music therapy with this population has been known to encourage functional movement, increase breath endurance, and regulate patterns of speech
What is cerebral palsy?
This part of the brain is known for processing rhythm and timing
What is the cerebellum?
This NMT Fellow is known for her research in neurologic music therapy and autism, specifically with how rhythm impacts the brain, and founded both a music therapy nonprofit and a school for autistic individuals in Arizona
Who is Suzanne Oliver?
This approach is known for using music to stimulate the senses and imagination
What is GIM?
This staff member was once called "Blinker"