Music therapy is the clinical use of musical interventions to improve mental and physical health across multiple domains, including social communication.

MTI at IAMM Berlin

Over the past decades, music therapy in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) has been proven effective in physiological and psychological outcomes, including sucking, behaviour, stress reduction, neurodevelopment and promoting emotional bonding.

BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies is calling for submissions to our Collection on Music and sound therapies.

Music therapy in eating disorder treatment and its synergy with systemic and family-based therapy approaches: A systematic review

Music has a way of minding our brains, and Mind the Music explores the effects that it has on our cognition, emotion, and behaviour. As well as into the fabric of our culture, music is woven into the fabric of our humanity – but where does it come from, and how does it help us to learn?

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Individual music listening in intensive care units (ICU) has more frequently reported benefits for reducing anxiety and pain.