Special Interest Group

Music Therapy and Music-Based Interventions for Neurodegenerative Illness

Erika Saito MD, MA, Japan

This Special Interest Group (SIG) built on its IAMM 2020 experience and focus on updates music therapy and other music and rhythm-based interventions for movement disorders--a field that had moved forward rapidly in the past several years. The SIG synthesized evidence from clinical studies on rhythmic auditory stimulation, therapeutic music performance, singing and dance for PD, and other types of neurologic music therapy and music medicine. The SIG developed a plenary session on this topic at the 2022 IAMM conference that included multidisciplinary participation from international leaders in the field of neurologic music therapy and researchers on music and rhythm-based interventions. The expected outcome of this SIG was the creation of a white paper, based on up-to-date evidence from existing studies coupled with expert opinion from leaders in the field.

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Alexander Pantelyat, Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Music and Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Current SIG Members

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Kyurim Kang, Ph.D., LPMT, MT-BC, NMT

Kyurim Kang, Ph.D., MT-BC, NMT, is a postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins Center for Music and Medicine. She is also a certified Neurologic Music Therapist. She earned her Ph.D. in Music and Health Science / Collaborative Program In Neuroscience (CPIN) at the University of Toronto in 2021. Dr. Kang has conducted basic research using electroencephalography (EEG) to investigate the neural mechanisms of socio-emotional responses in children with disabilities during music therapy sessions. She has also carried out clinical intervention research to investigate the effectiveness of neurologic music therapy techniques. Her research goal is to bridge the gap between scientific evidence-based music research and clinical practices. She has been also working with diverse clinical populations in the U.S. and in South Korea.

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Kerry Devlin, PhD, LPMT, MT-BC

Kerry Devlin, PhD, LPMT, MT-BC (she/her) is senior music therapist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Music & Medicine, where she has the honor of co-constructing music therapy encounters and research projects in adult neurology, critical care, and pediatric anesthesiology and critical care. As a disabled clinician, Kerry understands the unique experience of moving through the health care system as both a patient and a provider. She is passionate about amplifying the lived experiences of therapy participants through co-designed and co-authored research. Kerry’s research has been published in Music Therapy Perspectives, The Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, and Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports, and she co-edited the book Music Therapy and Music-Based Interventions in Neurology: Perspectives on Research and Practice recently published by Springer.

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Caitlin Hebb, MT-BC, NMT

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David Leventhal, BA

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Jeanette Tamplin, PhD, RMT

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Jeff Gilbert and Elizabeth Rees Gilbert

Jeff Gilbert earned his B.S. in Civil Engineering at the University of Maryland and his MBA at Frostburg State University. He built water and sewer projects in Maryland and performed surveying and construction engineering for the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill and the I-395 Air Rights Tunnel in Washington, DC. He lived on a barge in the Persian Gulf while surveying for a six-mile offshore pipeline project. Throughout his life, Jeff has embraced music, performing with bands, in local theatre productions, and singing in church and community choirs. Before Huntington’s Disease affected his ability to play acoustic, electric, and pedal steel guitars and mandolin, Jeff and his wife Elizabeth played in the Friday Night Garage Band with friends, rehearsing in the Gilberts’ music room above their garage, and performed locally. Jeff also played in local Celtic, jazz, and rock and roll bands, hosting an annual Beatles Night with family and friends. Jeff has been working with Music Therapist Kerry Devlin for two years and credits their work together with restoring his confidence in playing again. Jeff is grateful for his loving and supportive family and friends on this journey.

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Flor del Cielo Hernández, PhD, NICU-MT, MT-BC

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Dr. Cindybet Pérez-Martínez, PhD, MT-BC, NMT

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Past SIG Members

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Soo JI Kim, Ph.D., MT-BC, KCMT

Associate Dean, The Graduate School of Education

Professor & Director

Music Therapy Education, Ewha Womans University

Chief editor, Journal of Music and Human Behavior

Soo Ji Kim, Ph.D., MT-BC, KCMT, is professor and director of music therapy education;  associate dean of Graduate School of Education; director of the Arts Education & Therapy Institute; and Ewha Music Rehabilitation Center at Ewha Womans University. She received her doctoral degree in music therapy from the University of Kansas. Kim has many years of expertise in the area of music therapy in neurorehabilitation and cognitive aging, with recent research focused on developing evidence-based music therapy protocols in neurorehabilitation and strategic use of music in delaying cognitive decline. She currently serves as chief editor of Journal of Music and Human Behavior, and has served as the vice president of National Association of Korean Music Therapists from 2009 to 2020. Kim has published her research in SCI and SSCI journals and has presented at both national and international music therapy, gerontology, and medical conferences.

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Dr. Alfredo Raglio, PhD

Dr. Alfredo Raglio is a music therapist and researcher that has received an academic musical and music therapy education. Also, he has obtained a PhD in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Ferrara (Department of Biomedical and Specialistic Surgical Sciences, Section of Neurological Clinic). Dr. Raglio carryes out clinical and research activities at the Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri IRCCS (Pavia, Italy) where he is the Chief of the Music Therapy Research Laboratory and at the Cremonesini Foundation (Pontevico, Brescia, Italy). Dr. Raglio coordinates the Master in Music Therapy at the Department of Public Health, Experimental and Forensic Medicine of the University of Pavia; also, he is a Contract Professor at the University of Milan (Italy). He is the author of many monographs and scientific articles on peer-reviewed journals (H index 15) in the field of music therapy. 

 

Sonification techniques for gait  training: preliminary data of a pilot multicenter randomized controlled trial (SonicWalk)

Dr. Alfredo Raglio, PhD

Istiututi Clinici Scientifici Maugeri IRCCS (Pavia, Italy)

alfredo.raglio@icsmaugeri.it

alfredo.raglio@unipv.it 

Phone: +393387291944

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Dr. Monique van Bruggen Rufi, PhD

*ArtEZ University of the Arts, Music Therapy Department

Music therapist, NMT-F, RGM-practitioner
Senior Researcher, Lecturer Ba, Ma 
Manager PreMaster and Master Music Therapy Program

*Senior Researcher Saffier Domus Nostra

Long term care facility, Korsakov Expertise Center

The Hague, The Netherlands

*Music Therapist clinician

Zinzia Rumah Kita Long term care facility

Wageningen, The Netherlands

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Monique van Bruggen-Rufi (Netherlands) graduated as a music therapist in 2006 after a 20-year-long career as surgical nurse and physician’s assistant. Next, she was trained by Henk Smeijsters and earned her Master’s degree in Music Therapy in 2010.

In 2012 she started as a PhD-candidate at the Leiden University Medical Center in Leiden with Prof. Dr. Raymund Roos, Head of the Neurology Dept., specialized in Huntington’s Disease and other movement disorders. She earned her PhD in 2017.

Monique is a lecturer at the Bachelor and Master program at the ArtEZ University of the Arts, Music Therapy department in Enschede NL. She is a clinician, working as a music therapist with cognitive impaired, traumatized adolescents, as well as with elderly suffering from dementia and psychiatric disorders. She also works with traumatized elderly from the former Dutch Indies  She is a senior researcher at a clinic for people suffering from Korsakov’s syndrome.

Sonification techniques for gait training: preliminary data of a pilot multicenter randomized controlled trial (SonicWalk)

Dr. Alfredo Raglio, PhD
Istiututi Clinici Scientifici Maugeri IRCCS (Pavia, Italy)
alfredo.raglio@icsmaugeri.it
alfredo.raglio@unipv.it
Phone: +393387291944

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Brian Harris, MA, MT-BC, NMT-F

Brian Harris is the Co-Founder and CEO of MedRhythms. He is a board-certified music therapist and a Neurologic Music Therapist Fellow. Brian’s clinical work is focused at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, USA where he created and implemented their first inpatient full time Neurologic Music Therapy program, and built this program to be the most comprehensive NMT program in the country.  Brian is also the Co-Founder of the Arts & Neuroscience group at the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and sits on the Advisory Council of the Academy of Neurologic Music Therapy. He has been an invited speaker at venues throughout the world including Harvard Medical School, Stanford University, and The Neurology Foundation of India.  Brian is an author on multiple publications related to music and rehabilitation and is listed as an inventor on several patents.  His work has also been featured in Forbes, The Huffington Post, and Rolling Stone. 

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Activities and Outputs of the Special Interest Group on Music Therapy and Music-Based Interventions for Neurodegenerative Illness

This SIG Presented at The 7th International Conference of the IAMM

in Athens, Greece, May, 28-29th, 2022

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The 7th International Conference of the IAMM was held in Athens, Greece. Meetings and presentations from Greek and international invited speakers took place in person and through live streaming. Additionally, a week of online-only presentations took place  between May 30 and June 3, 2022

In view of the COVID-19 pandemic and to facilitate maximum international participation, it was possible to opt to attend the conference virtually or in-person.

Athens is one of the world's oldest cities, offering centuries-old history to be explored and enjoyed. According to Plato, one of the first schools of music education was founded by the people of Crete followed by the musical schools of Athens, where students were taught to sing and play the lyre. It was a pleasure for the conference to be held in this magical and historical city.

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