This week we will look at a cost effectiveness synthesis that included music therapy as a non-pharmocological intervention. Livingston et al. (2014) conducted a synthesis paper in order to determine the cost-effectiveness of different sensory and behavioral interventions for agitation in adults with dementia. Continue reading
Author Archives: Blythe
Music for Rehabilitation – Open Access
Happy 4th of July to all of our US readers! In this post we will be looking at recent articles that focus on the use of music for rehabilitation. All articles are open-access, meaning you can follow the links to read the entire article! Enjoy! Continue reading
April 2014 Update
Today’s update is focused on two articles that have free access! We hope you enjoy. Continue reading
Music Therapy for Older Adults with Dementia
Our First update of the year will be focused on some article concerning older adults with dementia. Two look at the impact of music therapy sessions on behaviors and the last will look at an evaluation of the Music in Dementia Assessment Scale. Continue reading
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
Piano Playing in Rehabilitation
Although there are several studies on music therapy techniques for gait, there are fewer for upper body movement. Two studies have just been published on Therapeutic Instrumental Music Performance (TIMP). Continue reading
Neurologic MT for Persons with Non-fluent Aphasia
Using music for persons with non-fluent aphasia continues to be published. In this recent article neurologic music therapy was compared to speech language therapy in persons post-stroke. 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