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.

The Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine is commemorating its 30th anniversary in 2024. Using this milestone as an anchor point, today on May 6, 2024, we hope to convene and stimulate clinicians, researchers and therapists to present some new and novel achievements in reflecting on how far the practice and field of music therapy in medicine and music and medicine has come.

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. 

First sounds, Rhythm, Breath and Lullaby

The Music Therapy department of ArtEZ organizes a NICU training Tier I and Tier II  "First Sounds, Rhythm, Breath and Lullaby",  from Friday 8 until Sunday 10 November 2024 at the ArtEZ Academy of Music Enschede (the Netherlands).

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