Many music therapists who work with persons with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) use music for gait training and volitional movement training. A new meta-analysis was completed on music-facilitated movement in PD. Continue reading →

Part 2 of our three part series on reading and writing scholarly research in music therapy. We discuss our own reactions to stats as undergraduates, tips for increasing your stats reading IQ in journal articles, and summarize a few of the more common statistical analyses. Blythe reminds us that correlation does NOT equal causation: So sayeth Dilbert.

MTRB issues this podcast, the first in a three part series on you, the listener, as researcher. This episode is a guide through the parts of a scholarly paper, whether you want to be a better consumer of research, are a student writing your first scholarly papers, or ready to dive in to the world of publication.

Parts two and three coming soon are “The Results Section or Remember Stats Class?” and “The Qualitative Side of Things,” respectively.

We recommend two texts: “The Practitioners Guide to Using Research for Evidence-Based Practice” by Rubin and How To Write A Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing by Silvia.

And this little number should help, too: How to Publish in Scholarly Journals