Music Listening, Music Therapy, Phenomenology and Neuroscience

Appendix 3.02 Survey of The Neurosciences a

nd Music I

I

Conference 2005

From Perception to Performance

Roun

dtable on Music Therapy (28-

31)

Title, Category

Aim

Mus.

material, Cultural R

ef.

Technology & Proce

dure

Main focus of interest

Conclusion

28. Hillecke et al.

(271

-282)

Perspectives on music therapy

Cat. 12: Music Therapy

29. Nickel et al. (283

-293)

Research in music therapy

Cat. 12: Music Therapy

30. Sabbatella (294

-302)

Resear

ch in Ibero

-American

countries

Cat. 12: Music Therapy

31. Thaut (303

-308)

The future of music in therapy and medicine

Cat. 12: Music Therapy

To contribute

to the

development of an adequate research strategy for evidence

-based music

therapy

To p

resent

selected outcome

studies carried out in order to give music therapy a scientific and empirical base

An overview of the status of music therapy in Ibero

• 
  

American countries

A brief

overview of theory and

clinical practice in music therapy

No particular music material

CR: Neutral No particular musical material mentioned.

CR: Not indicated

No particular musical material mentioned.

CR: Not indicated

No particular musical material mentioned.

CR: Not indicated

A table of therapy research strategies

3 randomized controlled trials (RCT):

1) Chronic pain

2) Children with m

igraine 3)

Chronic tinnitus Review of 11 music therapy journals and 12 conference proceedings

Review of selected research and clinical practice

Effective ingredient

s in the

field of music therapy: Modulation of attention, emotion, cognition, behavior, communication

Clinically and statistically

significant results of music therapy

Assessment and clinical evaluation of music therapy clinical practice

The rhythmic

patterns of

music can help movement in Parkinson’s disease patients. Musical information is retained in Alzheimers’ disease patients

A number of questions about the relevance of neurocognitive theories and methods for music therapy research

Evidence f

or the effect of

music therapy in specific clinical fields

:

1) Chronic pain

2) Children with migraine 3) Chronic tinnitus

Need to develop assessment and clinical evaluation tools on a higher scientific level

Music can communicate information to the b

rain that

has profound effects on learning, development, recovery of func

tion, and

aesthetic engagement