Study protocol of a randomized control trial on the effectiveness of improvisational music therapy for autistic children

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

IAMM Berlin 2024

MTI at IAMM Berlin

Music therapy in tertiary neonatal intensive care: A matter of unlikely allies?

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.

Call for Papers

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

Pearls of Wisdom

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.

NEW PUBLICATION on Eating Disorders

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

MIND

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?

NEW PUBLICATION on Adult ICU

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