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Therapeutic Outcomes of the Arts

Therapeutic Outcomes of the Arts

Delving deep into the transformative potential of the arts within the medical sphere, this topic will encompass the multifaceted roles arts play, from traditional music and creative art therapy modalities to the emergent field of neuroaesthetics. Studies and real-world applications will showcase how arts-based interventions can not only alleviate physical pain but also act as powerful tools for emotional and psychological healing.

Suzanne Hanser

Dr. Suzanne Hanser

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Prof. Dr. Stefan Willich

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Prof. Felicity Baker, PhD

What is acceptable evidence? Immediate vs long-term effects of music therapy for people living with dementia

Prof. Felicity Baker, PhD

Professor Felicity Baker is Associate Dean Research for the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music and Director, International Research Partnerships for the Creative Arts and Music Therapy Research Unit at The University of Melbourne and former Australia Research Council Future Fellow (2011-2015). She has attracted more than $18 million in research funding and is the author of over 150 publications. Her latest book is Leadership and Management of Clinical Trials in the Creative Arts Therapies, which is the first book to provide guidance on clinical trial implementation in this field.

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What is acceptable evidence? Immediate vs long-term effects of music therapy for people living with dementia

This presentation will draw on findings from my team’s completed randomised controlled trials to highlight the challenges CAT researchers experience in generating the research evidence needed to have scalable impact. Despite our RCTs with sample sizes >300, long-term effects are difficult to show, especially when working with people with degenerative diseases where there are different dementia types, severities, rates of cognitive decline, and a lack of confirmatory diagnostic data. This contrasts with the observable immediate and short-term effects that are often more meaningful for consumers (people with dementia, caregivers etc) but challenging to capture using the standardised tools that are recognised by experts in the medical field. In my presentation, I highlight the value of co-collecting short-term/immediate effects of CAT interventions alongside longer-term outcomes, and how the findings from immediate effects can be framed as evidence, inform future research designs, and refine intervention components.

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Marisol Norris

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Sonic Borders: Music, Care, and Grappling with the Hinterlands

Marisol Norris

Dr. Marisol Norris is the founder and CEO of the Black Music Therapy Network, Inc., and director of the Music Therapy and Counseling Master’s Program at Drexel University. A leading music therapy scholar-activist, she teaches internationally on the human need for wholeness and the liberatory function of artistic processes to deepen this capacity. Her scholarship focuses on aesthetics as an embodied meaning-making process within Black life, exploring the effects of societal trauma on the health of Black communities and the agented portrayals of Black service recipients’ health practices across chronic illness and mental health. Her co-edited book (Post)Colonialism & Music Therapy: Beginning Dialogues, special issue, “Black Aesthetics & the Arts Therapies,'' and recent chapter “...& the Fields: Remembering the Hinterlands in Music & Health,” co-written with esperanza spalding demonstrates this work as theory in the flesh and the deliberate care of bringing margins to the center.

Sonic Borders: Music, Care, and Grappling with the Hinterlands

This keynote will explore the evolving discourse on culturally sustaining practices in music and health research and their impact on therapeutic outcomes. Emphasizing the role of music in promoting health equity and social justice, the speaker will delve into critical dimensions of music-based interventions and their influence on research trajectories. The presentation will highlight the need for culturally sustaining interventions, examining the theoretical frameworks underpinning music-based clinical research. It will emphasize the physiological, psychological, and social mechanisms through which music holds therapeutic effects, drawing attention to the socio-political implications for therapeutic practice and healthcare interventions on service users' whole-being. Additionally, the speaker will discuss applications of music-based interventions and culturally sustaining approaches, centering quality and access to care, and advocating for emancipatory practices to reduce inequities within music-based research for marginalized communities.
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Prof. Rainbow Ho

The impacts of arts in clinical and community settings – biopsychosocial impacts and beyond

Prof. Rainbow Tin Hung Ho

Prof. Rainbow T. H. Ho, is Professor at the Department of Social Work and Social Administration and the Director of the Centre on Behavioral Health at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). Prof. Ho holds degrees in Biology, Anatomy, Social Work and Social Administration, professional diplomas in performance arts and movement analysis, and credentials in expressive arts therapy, dance movement therapy and somatic movement therapy. She has been the principal investigator of many research projects related to creative arts therapy, psychophysiology, and mind-body practices for healthy and clinical populations. Prof. Ho has received many awards, including the Outstanding Achievement Award (2015) and Research Award (2015, 2019) from the American Dance Therapy Association, the Research and Development Award from Australia, New Zealand, and Asia Arts Therapy Association (2016), the Outstanding Teaching Award (2015), Outstanding Research Output Award (2020), Knowledge Exchange Award (2021) and Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award (2022) from HKU.

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The impacts of arts in clinical and community settings – biopsychosocial impacts and beyond

The growing body of research has demonstrated the substantial benefits of arts engagement in supporting individuals with specific issues and conditions, as well as promoting wellness in the wider community. Through our research and community projects, we have consistently observed that active participation in the creative process and meaningful engagement with the arts cultivates a heightened sense of self-awareness and social connectedness. Moreover, this involvement yields significant improvements across various domains, encompassing physical, cognitive, and social functioning, as well as physiological parameters, such as stress hormones. The present presentation serves as a platform to share our experiences, with the intent of stimulating further discourse regarding potential avenues for exploring the unlimited benefits and potential of arts engagement.

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Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Sabine C. Koch

Outcomes research in dance movement therapy and drama therapy

Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Sabine C. Koch

Prof. Dr. Sabine C. Koch, Psychologist and Dance Movement Therapist, MSW, BC-DMT, Director of the Research Institute for Creative Arts Therapies (RIArT) at Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences, Bonn; and professor at the dance movement therapy DMT Master Program at SRH University Heidelberg, Germany. Embodiment, evidence-based research in CATs, therapeutic factors of creative arts therapies, Kestenberg Movement Profile. Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Arts Therapies (JAT, GMS Open Access Online Journal for CATs), collaborator of the International Research Alliance / NYU Creative Arts Therapies Consortium and of the WHO Arts & Health Department. Contact: sabine.koch@alanus.edu

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Outcomes research in dance movement therapy and drama therapy

Outcomes research is vital to the survival of the creative arts therapies and the arts and health field in the ever more competitive clinical research of the health sciences. Our presence in medical guidelines depends upon convincing outcome research, primary studies as well as reviews and meta-analyses. The presentation will provide insights into recent research findings on the impact of dance movement therapy and drama therapy on different patient populations.

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Music and Arts-based Interventions in Medical and Health Contexts

Music and Arts-based Interventions in Medical and Health Contexts

Music and arts are not just for entertainment; their therapeutic potential is profound and far-reaching. This topic will shed light on the diverse applications of music and other art forms in various medical contexts. We will explore how tailored interventions, from rhythmic entrainment to visual stimulation, can offer solace, healing, and rejuvenation across different patient demographics and conditions.

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Deforia Lane, PhD, MT-BC

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Prof. Dr. Med. Anne Berghöfer

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Dr. Emmeline Edwards

The NIH Toolkit for Music-based Interventions: A Path to Strengthening Evidence-based Research

Dr. Emmeline Edwards, Director of the Division of Extramural Research

Dr. Emmeline Edwards is director of the Division of Extramural Research of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH). In that capacity, she is responsible for development of scientific programs or areas of science that fulfill NCCIH's mission as well as planning, implementation, and policy. NCCIH is one of 27 components of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), with a mission to define, through rigorous scientific investigation, the usefulness and safety of complementary and integrative health interventions and their roles in improving health and health care. Currently, Dr. Edwards is Co-Chair of the trans NIH Music and Health working group, member of the Sound Health Initiative Steering Committee, and advisor to the NeuroArts Blueprint. Dr. Edwards is also Chair of World Women in Neuroscience (WWN), an independent mentoring and networking organization, with the primary mission of identifying, and implementing mentoring and networking opportunities for women neuroscientists across the world.

Keynote:

The NIH Toolkit for Music-based Interventions: A Path to Strengthening Evidence-based Research

Music-based Interventions (MBIs) have shown promise for managing symptoms of various brain disorders. To fully realize the potential of MBIs and dispel the outdated misconception that MBIs are rooted in “soft science,” the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is promoting rigorously designed, well-powered MBI clinical trials. The pressing need of guidelines for scientifically rigorous studies with enhanced data collection led to the creation of the NIH MBI Toolkit for research on music and health across the lifespan. The Toolkit defines the building blocks of MBIs, including a consolidated set of common data elements for MBI protocols, and core datasets of outcome measures and biomarkers for brain disorders of aging that researchers may select for their studies. A critical step toward incorporating MBIs into U.S. health care systems is the dissemination and implementation of the NIH MBI Toolkit’s guiding principles for large-scale, rigorous, and replicable evidence-based research. Utilization of the guiding principles in this Toolkit is strongly recommended for NIH-funded studies of MBIs.
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Joke Bradt, PhD, MT-BC

Music therapy for chronic pain management

Joke Bradt, PhD, MT-BC, Professor and Program Director

Joke Bradt, PhD, MT-BC is Professor and Director of the PhD program in Creative Arts Therapies at Drexel University (Philadelphia, USA). She is a board-certified music therapist. Her federally funded research program has focused on the development and testing of music therapy interventions for chronic pain and symptom management. She has completed several NIH-funded music therapy clinical trials for chronic pain. She is the co-PI on a large comparative-effectiveness trial funded by PCORI to compare the effects of virtual music therapy with virtual CBT on anxiety in cancer survivors. She is the lead author of several Cochrane Systematic Reviews on music interventions with medical patients. She leads the Music4Pain Research Network, funded by the National Center of Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She is the co-founder of the International Music Therapy Clinical Trial Network (IMTCTnet). Finally, she was the Editor-in-Chief of the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy from 2015-2023.

Keynote:

Music therapy for chronic pain management

Dr. Joke Bradt will present on the use of music therapy for chronic pain management. She will discuss how music therapy can contribute to effective pain management by addressing several biological, psychological, and social factors that exacerbate pain. Dr. Bradt will also present findings of several research studies she has conducted with people with chronic pain.
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Prof. Dr. Habil. Karin Dannecker

The Healing Potential of the Arts

Prof. Dr. habil. Karin Dannecker

Karin Dannecker studied art, art education and special and remedial education in Frankfurt/M., Germany and completed her training as an art therapist at New York University, USA in 1985. She taught art therapy at the University of the Arts in Berlin until 1998. She received her doctorate in 1992 and habilitated in 2005. She collaborated with Goldsmiths College at the Park-Klinik Berlin installing an Art Psychotherapy training. In 2005 she became full professor and director of the first MA art therapy program at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin. Since 2024 she is emerita professor. She has published several books and numerous essays. Her major work “Psyche und Ästhetik. Die Transformationen der Kunsttherapie” (Psyche and Aesthetics. The Transformations of Art Therapy) was published in 2021 in the 4th edition. She works as clinical art therapist with psychiatric and psychosomatic patients and is a licensed child and adolescent psychotherapist and supervisor.

Keynote:

The Healing Potential of the Arts

Karin Dannecker studied art, art education and special and remedial education in Frankfurt/M., Germany and completed her training as an art therapist at New York University, USA in 1985. She taught art therapy at the University of the Arts in Berlin until 1998. She received her doctorate in 1992 and habilitated in 2005. She collaborated with Goldsmiths College at the Park-Klinik Berlin installing an Art Psychotherapy training. In 2005 she became full professor and director of the first MA art therapy program at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin. Since 2024 she emerita professor. She has published several books and numerous essays. Her major work “Psyche und Ästhetik. Die Transformationen der Kunsttherapie” (Psyche and Aesthetics. The Transformations of Art Therapy) was published in 2021 in the 4th edition. She works as clinical art therapist with psychiatric and psychosomatic patients and is a licensed child and adolescent psychotherapist and supervisor.
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Innovations at the Intersection of Arts, Medicine, Health, and Technology

Innovations at the Intersection of Arts, Medicine, Health, and Technology

The future of healthcare beckons with an exciting confluence of arts, medicine, and technology. This topic will spotlight groundbreaking initiatives that harness the power of technology to redefine patient care. We will explore how blending artistic practices with the latest technological advancements can offer tailored therapeutic strategies and foster productive interdisciplinary dialogues, ultimately driving healthcare towards unprecedented horizons.

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Marijke Groothuis, MMTH, NMT-F, BED

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Prof. Claudia Witt, MT, MBA

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Rachel Francine, CEO

The Probable, Possible and Preferable Futures of Music as Medicine

Rachel Francine, CEO

Rachel Francine is a digital pioneer and trained futurist who, starting in 1996, helped lay the tracks of the Internet as a member of the CitySearch New Markets team. Rachel spent over 15 years transforming brick and mortar products into scalable digital solutions for companies including Cars.com, Ticketmaster and Al Gore’s Current TV. Rachel subsequently earned a Master’s degree in Futures Studies from the University of Houston with a focus on Impact Economics in order to create organizations that can transform local and global social wellbeing, health and financial abundance. In 2012, Rachel co-founded Musical Health Technologies which is mass distributing music as medicine for the first time in history with its SingFit digital health platform, winner of the USC Keck School of Medicine Body Computing Prize. Rachel is a frequent speaker on music as medicine as well as preferable futures for organizations as diverse as the United Nations, The Professional Golfers Association and the UK Department of Business and Trade.

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The Probable, Possible and Preferable Futures of Music as Medicine

Music has been used as an effective healthcare intervention for centuries. In the past 100 years, a growing body of medical research has been uncovering the hard science behind the positive, unmatched, transformative impacts therapeutic music can have on the neurological, physical and emotional health of people struggling with conditions as varied as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, autism spectrum disorders, dementia and depression. Yet, in most countries, the use of therapeutic music is nowhere near fully integrated into mainstream healthcare systems. Why is this and how can we change it? With a masters degree in Futures Studies and a ten year tenure as CEO of Musical Health Technologies, Rachel Francine will look at the economic, political, scientific, sociological and technological reasons keeping therapeutic music from going mainstream and, more importantly, offer conference attendees tools to help create preferable futures where music as medicine is accessible to all who can benefit from it.
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Camila S G Acosta Gonçalves, RMT, MA, PhD(C)

Perspectives from Music, Health & Technology Collaborations in Brazil

Camila S. G. Acosta Gonçalves, RMT, MA, PhD(c)

Camila is a registered music therapist with over 15 years of clinical experience, currently working at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil. She has worked in neurorehabilitation as a clinician, a researcher, and a supervisor. She is a PhD candidate at the Health Technology Graduate Program at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PPGTS/PUCPR) and a music therapy lecturer at Censupeg and at Instituto Estadual Carlos Gomes. She is a member of the International Association for Music and Medicine and serves in the Clinical Practice Commission of the World Federation of Music Therapy. Camila has worked in collaboration with biomedical engineers and healthcare professionals to build low-cost solutions for music-based rehabilitation technologies. Her research interests are implementing music technologies into healthcare, such as in gerontology, oncology, and neurorehabilitation settings.

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Perspectives from Music, Health & Technology Collaborations in Brazil

This keynote will share initiatives for research and clinical work with music technologies from interdisciplinary teams. We are a group of biomedical engineers, music therapists, and other health professionals and our principles are based on low-cost solutions, simple tech that works, high acceptability and efficacy. As our way of making music has changed with technology development, we may find more room for accessibility, interaction, and autonomy. We will share our steps towards building and adapting technologies and music for rehabilitation and symptom relief, targeting distraction, motivation, and quality of life.
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Prof. Dr. Thomas Ostermann

A byte for arts – Digital applications meet artistic expressions

Prof. Dr. Thomas Ostermann

Thomas Ostermann received his MSc in Mathematics and Physics in 1995 from the University of Osnabruck, Germany. After finalizing his doctoral degree on Speech recognition, he worked as Senior Methodologist at the Institute for Integrative Medicine at Witten/Herdecke University. In 2006, he received his PhD in „Health Services Research“, which in 2009 was extended for “Informatics, Medical Biometrics and Epidemiology”. In 2011, he became Professor for Research Methodology and Information Systems in Complementary Medicine and in 2015 he was appointed to the newly created Chair of Research Methodology and Statistics in Psychology. In 2016, he was elected as Head of the Department of Psychology and Psychotherapy. His research interests include the development and application of statistical methods for Health Services Research and Psychology, Research in Digital aspects of Creative Arts Therapies and the development of E-Health and M-Health applications.

Keynote:

A byte for arts – Digital applications meet artistic expressions

The use of artistic expression for diagnostics and therapy has a long tradition, which already started a century ago with psychological assessment tools using drawings to explore personality traits and inner emotions. With the advent of technical and digital achievements, these methods were adapted and integrated in corresponding therapeutic systems. This keynote outlines the relationship of arts and information technology from the very beginning in the fields of clinical and educational applications and human interaction aspects and illustrates the current developments. In particular, this keynote illustrates the use of digital drawing applications i.e. in the prediction of Alzheimer’s disease, to investigate depressive moods or to detect interpersonal emotional attachment. From a methodological point of view, various methods of qualitative and quantitative research are presented in order to evaluate such applications even in small patient samples. Finally, critical questions on the impact of digitalization are touched.
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Neurosciences, Cognition, and the Arts

Neurosciences, Cognition, and the Arts

This topic will shed a light on the intricacies of the brain and its relationship with the arts. It will provide a comprehensive exploration of how the arts influence neural activities, shape our cognitive functions, and offer promising avenues for therapeutic recovery.

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Camila Pfeiffer, MA, NMT

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Prof. Dr. Benno Brinkhaus

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Psyche Loui, PhD

The Sciences of New Musical Systems, and Their Implications for Brain Health

Psyche Loui, PhD. Associate Professor of Creativity and Creative Practice

Psyche Loui is Associate Professor of Creativity and Creative Practice in the Department of Music and director of the MIND (Music, Imaging, and Neural Dynamics) lab at Northeastern University. She holds a PhD in Psychology from University of California, Berkeley and undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Music from Duke University. Dr. Loui studies the neuroscience of music perception and cognition, tackling questions such as: What gives people the chills when they are moved by a piece of music? How does connectivity in the brain enable or disrupt music perception? Can music help those with neurological disorders? Dr. Loui’s work has been supported by National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, received multiple Grammy awards, a young investigator award from the Positive Neuroscience Institute, and a Career award from the National Science Foundation. Her projects have been featured by the Associated Press, New York Times, Boston Globe, BBC, CNN, and other news outlets.

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The Sciences of New Musical Systems, and Their Implications for Brain Health

Music is an integral part of every human society, and musical experiences have been associated with human health and well-being since antiquity. Recent use-inspired research on Music-Based Interventions includes receptive (music listening) and active (music making) programs designed to make measurable changes to human health and well-being. Designing these interventions consistently and with measurable benefits requires addressing the question of dosage, which refers to both duration and intensity of treatment. I argue that the benefits of music-based interventions rely on the ability of music to move us: both physically as a result of sensorimotor coupling towards optimally complex rhythmic structures, and emotionally a result of systematic fulfillment and violations of predictions that engage the dopaminergic reward system. I will present recent work that encompasses music technology and composition, human behavioral testing, neuropsychological assessments, and neuroimaging (EEG and MRI) studies in my lab on how and why humans across societies learn to love music, uncovering the role of different types of predictions on the activity and connectivity of the motor and reward systems. I will also consider how this knowledge can be translated into interventions for those with neurological and/or psychiatric disorders, presenting preliminary results on Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson’s Disease.
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Mari Tervaniemi

Music in the brain - in the laboratory and in the concert

Mari Tervaniemi, Research Director

Research Director Mari Tervaniemi obtained her PhD in psychology in 1997 in the University of Helsinki about auditory neurocognition and musical expertise. Her research topics cover auditory learning as well as the brain basis of musical expertise and music emotions. She has published over 200 articles in international refereed journals in music psychology, learning sciences and cognitive neuroscience (e.g., Brain, Scientific Reports, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Journal of Neuroscience, Trends in Neurosciences, Music Perception). She serves in several editorial boards and acts frequently as a reviewer for international journals and funding agencies in the fields of neurosciences, psychology, and music. Of particular interest for her is to apply knowledge acquired within the framework of basic science into education and neurorehabilitation.

Keynote:

Music in the brain - in the laboratory and in the concert

Music in the brain is a topic of a relatively new scientific field called “neuroscience of music”. Studies of this field were initiated in the 1990s as an integrated part of the well-controlled experimental research tradition. Since then, these studies have moved toward ecologically valid paradigms. In my talk, I will introduce this move in two contexts: (i) sound stimulation and empirical paradigms and (ii) study participants, with the aim to illustrate how the field has developed during past two decades.
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Prof. Vicky Karkou

Dance movement psychotherapy for people with depression: current knowledge and future research

Prof. Vicky Karkou

Vicky is the Director of the Research Centre for Arts and Wellbeing, a dance movement psychotherapist and an internationally known academic and researcher in the arts and arts psychotherapies. She has had external funding successes of over £7million from funding bodies such as the European Union, the Wellcome Trust, the NIHR, UKRI, the Arts Council and so on. She joined Edge Hill University in 2013, originally as a Professor of Dance in Performing Arts and more recently moved to the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Medicine as a Professor of Arts and Wellbeing. She is currently leading the largest UKRI research funding award offered in the UK to the arts, arts therapies and children's mental health called Arts4Us. She also co-leads the research network funded by AHRC titled Neuroscience meets Dance in Therapy.

Keynote:

Dance movement psychotherapy for people with depression: current knowledge and future research
Dance movement psychotherapy is one of the arts therapies, a psychological therapy that has demonstrates considerable promise to reducing depression when working with people with depression. It has been reported that the reduction of scores of depression can be long lasting. It is possible that some of the reasons for these changes are the embodied nature of the discipline, the possibility to develop certain artistic and body-based skills, its non-verbal character, its capacity to enable participants to access difficult and often unconscious material and the therapeutic relationship. However, research on the mechanism of change and the impact of dance movement psychotherapy on the brain remain under-researched. Current neuroscientific research is primarily based on dance as performance and as such begs for new research studies that can bring attention to dance as therapy, explaining therapeutic processes that work and maximising on good practice. This presentation will summarise the current knowledge we have on process and outcome research with people with depression and propose new research directions that incorporate neuroscientific explorations.
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Prof. Dr. Carsten Finke

What is the role of music for our memory?

Prof. Dr. Carsten Finke

Carsten Finke is a Heisenberg Professor and consultant neurologist at the Department of Neurology at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. He is interested in the clinical and cognitive neuroscience of memory and memory disorders with a specific focus on neurological diseases associated with hippocampal dysfunction, e.g. autoimmune and viral encephalitis, transient global amnesia and temporal lobe epilepsy.

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What is the role of music for our memory?

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Artistic Expression and Cultural perspectives in Healthcare and Community

Artistic Expression and Cultural Perspectives in Healthcare and Community

Art is a universal language, yet it is deeply rooted in cultural nuances. This topic will explore the significance of acknowledging and integrating these cultural perspectives within healthcare environments. We will seek to understand the importance of considering diverse artistic expressions in therapy, the role of cultural sensitivity in patient care, and the potential benefits of an inclusive, globally-aware approach to health and well-being.

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Dr. Lisa Wong

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Prof. Lukas Feireiss

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Bill Banfield

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Bill Banfield

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Sydelle Ross, MD, D-ABA

Exploring The Role of Music In Promoting Wellness by Affirming Cultural Identity and Facilitating Artistic Expression- From The Bedside To The Community

Sydelle Ross MD, D.ABA

Dr. Sydelle Ross is an anesthesiologist and pain specialist who practices hospice and palliative medicine in the New Jersey Veterans Affairs Healthcare System in the United States of America. Dr. Ross received her medical degree from the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in New York City. She completed her residency in anesthesiology at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia Campus, and later completed fellowship training in pain medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Dr Ross is a classical vocalist who incorporates bedside singing into her practice as a way of providing comfort to patients who are battling life-threatening illnesses. She is a member of the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System’s Healing Arts Committee, as well as a member of the Music and Medicine Committee of the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA). Dr. Ross served on the executive committee for the inaugural issue of the Arts In Medicine Journal- a collaboration between AMWA’s Music and Medicine Committee and Rutger’s University Women’s Health Institute in New Jersey. Dr. Ross is also a physician contributor to the publication entitled Artists Remaking Medicine-The Practice of Imagination and the Power to Create a Better Healthcare Future.

Keynote:

Exploring The Role of Music In Promoting Wellness by Affirming Cultural Identity and Facilitating Artistic Expression- From The Bedside To The Community

In this presentation I will be discussing the use of bedside singing in providing culturally sensitive care, highlighting the types of songs that I share with patients depending on their cultural backgrounds, including religious/spiritual songs and jazz compositions. Through my work in the community, I will also discuss the impact of music in places of worship, as well as its role in facilitating artistic expression and affirming cultural identity in senior community settings and community-based youth programs.
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Mazda Adli

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Mazda Adli

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