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MTRB#6: Julian O’Kelly
We recorded this podcast on January 15, 2015 (yes, 1/15/15) with a wonderful guest, Dr. Julian O’Kelly. He has worked in neuro-rehabilitation and palliative care as a music therapy clinician, manager, educationalist and researcher for the last fifteen years and regularly presents at international symposia and conferences. In addition to his research work, Julian chairs the scientific committee for the forthcoming international conference at the Royal Hospital for Neurodisability: ‘Music Therapy Advances in Neurodisability II’, and is associate editor of a special research topic for the open access publication ‘Frontiers in Human Neuroscience’ titled ‘Dialogues in music therapy and music neuroscience: collaborative understanding driving clinical advances.’
Publication on music therapy assessment of disorders of consciousness
Frontiers in Neuroscience: “Dialogues”
Neurophysiological and behavioral responses to music therapy (article abstract)
Link to the JISCMAIL MT Neurology Network
MTRB#5: Results and Data Analysis
Blast from the past – here’s an episode that we DID manage to save from the “old days” about results and data analysis. It was a “Part 2” portion of a three part series on writing up a manuscript.
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Open Access Articles – Dec 2013
The next few weeks are “go time” in my world, as the semester comes to an end. This leaves little time for blog posts. Therefore, I’m providing you with a quick December update of open-access articles related to music and function! Continue reading
A note from the founder.
MTRB was started with the hope of connecting MT clinicians to research published outside music therapy journals. This is a 100% free service. We have no ads, no email campaigns – just information.
About two years ago we began selling online continuing education courses. The idea behind the courses is to share information, while raising money for music therapy research. MTRB has already provided support to three music therapy research projects, purchasing forms and other supplies for clinicians to use in research. I have also spent 100s of hours providing free advice to music therapy clinicians on topics related to research. Continue reading
Entrainment – pro-social and animal
Some recent studies are bringing forth new information about rhythmic entrainment. A few of them are from a few years back, but due to different search terms in my current research, I just stumbled upon them this week! Continue reading
Articles you may have missed…
This week I’m under deadline, so this week’s post will be a listing of recent articles that aren’t in music therapy journals: Continue reading
Disaster Response
Many of you know that we lost our home in the 2012 High Park Fire. With floods, storms, and wildfires in recent headlines, I want to ask you all to take the time to get prepared. I have created a FREE 10-hour CMTE on preparing for disaster, available at Summit Music Therapy Services.
By preparing you can decrease the overall impact that disaster can have on your family and business. Preparing is not something to wait and do later – it is something to do as soon as you can. My hope is these credits will be incentive to get music therapists to be informed and prepared.
Plus, I talk about research in the course 🙂
Stay safe out there.
Sincerely,
Blythe LaGasse
Music Listening for Anxiety
Patients who are awaiting medical procedures often experience anxiety. Music and music therapy are often used for anxiety and studies on the use of music can be found within the music therapy, nursing, and medical literature. Continue reading
Music Engagement: Long-term Training Effects
Researchers have demonstrated that music training changes the brain. Although it can be expected that engagement in any prolonged and specialized activity will yield cortical changes, the impact of music on the brain seems to be unique. In this MTRB post we will review some recent studies on music exposure and cortical differences. Continue reading