Music filling Sharon's senses
Ariel Sharon's sons have been playing Mozart and Israeli folk tunes by their ailing father's bedside...
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002732670_sharon11....
While in Surgery, Do You Prefer Abba or Verdi?
Surgeons say music in the OR relaxes them, focuses their attention and helps pass the time.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/10/arts/music/10doct.html?ex=1150603200...
American Tinnitus Association
National nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing tinnitus research and educating patients and professionals through conferences, books, brochures, videos, and a quarterly journal.
http://www.ata.org/
BBC News Report
Music, particularly Mozart, could have a therapeutic effect on epilepsy, say scientists.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1251000/1251839.stm
CAIRSS for Music (Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval Service System)
Bibliographic database of music research literature in music education, music psychology, music therapy, and music medicine. Citations from 1,354 journals.
http://imr.utsa.edu/CAIRSS.html
Exploring Multiple Intelligences
Resources on the Theory of Multiple Intelligences, based on the research of Howard Gardner, co-director of Harvard's ProjectZero.
http://www.multi-intell.com/
How music affects your child's brain
In recent decades, an enormous amount of research has been conducted on the specific ways in which sound, rhythm, and music can improve our liv
http://parenting.ivillage.com/baby/bdevelopment/0,,6wk0-2,00.html
How music lessons hold the key to brainier children
Young children who take music lessons show more advanced brain development and improved memory than those who do not, according to a study published today.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/20/nbrain...
Institute for Music and Neurologic Function: Beth Abraham Hospital
Paramount program in music and brain study
http://www.bethabe.org/MUSIC_INSTITUTE55.html
Molecular basis for Mozart effect revealed
New research has revealed a molecular basis for the "Mozart effect" - the observation that a brief stint of Mozart, but not other music, may improve learning and memory.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4918
Mozart 'aids eye check accuracy'
Listening to Mozart helps patients perform more reliably in sight tests, a study has found.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4920658.stm
Music for Pain
A new systematic study of music for pain finds that while music won't replace painkillers, it can boost their effectiveness
http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?article_id=218392834
Music for The Mozart Effect: Vol. 1 - Strengthen the Mind: Music for Intelligence and Learning
Music specially sequenced for projects, study and intelligence.
http://www.mozarteffect.com/OnlineStore/MERCProductd.php?d=6501
MuSICA (Music and Science Information Computer Archive)
Research on music and behavior, including evolution, brain mechanisms, child development, perception, learning, memory, performance, health and related topics.
http://www.musica.uci.edu/
New Study Reveals music-relaxation link
This study establishes that music, by alternating fast and slower rhythms and pauses, can be used to induce relaxation
http://heart.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/92/4/445?maxtoshow=&HITS...
Open Ear Center
Training for healthcare professionals and laypersons in the use of sound and music to facilitate the healing process.
http://www.openearcenter.com/
Sing, Sing, Sing!
The biology of singing
http://www.musica.uci.edu/mrn/V3I2F96.html#sing
The Ear and Language
Visionary book on the ear, listening and language
http://www.amazon.com/Ear-Language-Alfred-Tomatis/dp/0969707983
The Mozart Effect: Tapping the Power of Music to Heal the Body, Strengthen the Mind, and Unlock the Creative Spirit--Audio Book, Read by the author
This groundbreaking book byDon Campbell reveals how exposure to sound and music has a profound lifelong effect on health, learning, and behavior, and points the way to a healthier, more harmonious lifestyle.
http://www.mozarteffect.com/OnlineStore/MERCProductd.php?d=7418
The National Association for Music Education
Resources for music educators.
http://www.menc.org/
The Nordoff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy at New York University
Resources ré the Nordoff-Robbins approach to creative music therapy.
http://www.steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/nordoff/
THE SPECTRUM CENTER
Long established Center in the Washing DC area brings, occupational therapy, the Tomatis Method and The Mozart Effect ® into a blended clinical application.
http://listeningtraining.net/
Tomatis and the Tomatis Method
LEARNING ABOUT THE TOMATIS METHOD
http://www.soundlistening.com/ftestimonials.html
Your Child's Brain
Attention Parents.....explore how to improve your Baby's brain
http://www.edufrance.org/chicago/links/fbegley.html
AMC - Music Making and the Brain
Resources ré links between active music making and the human brain.
http://amc-music.com/musicmaking/thebrain.htm
AMC - Research On Link between Intelligence and Music
Study confirming a causal link exists between music and intelligence and suggests that learning skills can be improved by listening to music at an early age.
http://amc-music.com/musicmaking/brain/rauscher.htm
Auditory List
Auditory peception
http://www.auditory.org/
Does classical music make babies smarter?
Playing classical music to babies - many experts think that it may stimulate the brain in a way that helps educational and emotional development
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4558507.stm
Harvard Project Zero Meta Anyl
Harvard affirms music and drama linked to academic performance
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/features/affirmingmozart09202000.html
Howard Gardner
Originator of the theory of multiple intelligences, a groundbreaking critique of the notion that there exists but a single human intelligence.
http://www.howardgardner.com/
Institute for Music Research - Univ of Texas San Antonio
Established to promote research in the areas of music psychology and music technology. Also host CAIRSS database (separate listing.)
http://imr.utsa.edu/
International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition
Music Perception and Psychology gatherings
http://www.icmpc.org
International Foundation for Music Research
Explores the relationship between music and physical and emotional wellness, with particular attention to the elderly population, the impact of music making on at-risk youth, and music education and the effect of music and music making,
http://www.music-research.org/
Journal "Médicine des Arts"
fine website in French and English on the use of Arts as Medicine
http://www.arts-medicine.com
MENC Research on the relationship of music and other academic areas
There is a growing body of evidence that arts instruction can significantly strengthen student's academic performance
http://www.menc.org/publication/articles/academic/pawtuck.htm
Mozart's Legacy: Early music lessons may help children later in life
Scientific research has found some basis for the notion that music instruction stimulates general intelligence
http://www.journaltimes.com/articles/2005/06/15/health/doc42a6500c67e4...
Music: Food for the Brain
The Bolton Project research on music and learning
http://www.peterperret.com/bolton.html
Music Soothes The Soul
Music has been proven to help memorization, to help us retain information we have learned. It has to do with order, symmetry, rhythmic patterns, repetition, ideal mathematical form, and harmony
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=95...
Music Therapy Research and Resources - Univ of Wisconsin
Literature Reviews and Research with Goals & Methodology.
http://www.uwec.edu/rasarla/research/
Musicians found to have 'more sensitive brains'
What happens in a musicians brain?
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=305961
National Library of Medicine (US)
Access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
NewJour-Electronic Journals and Newletters
20,000 journals, links and news sources
http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/
The Influence of Learning on Cortical Activation
Listening to music; how it effect neural activity
http://www.macalester.edu/~psych/whathap/UBNRP/Audition/site/musicexp
The ISME Commission on Music in Special Education, Music Therapy and Music Medicine
International special education music society
http://warwick.ac.uk/wie/special-isme/index.html
The Kennedy Center's ArtsEdge
Supports the placement of the arts at the center of the curriculum and advocates creative use of technology.
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/
The Official Oliver Sacks Website
Explore the world of the mind and senses
http://www.oliversacks.com/
Cognitive and Psychological Sciences on the Internet
index to Internet resources relevant to research in cognitive science and psychology
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/cogsci/longindex.html
German Society for Music Psychology (Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Musikpsychologie)
Germany music Psychology Society
http://musicweb.hmt-hannover.de/dgm/english/index.html
Gordon Shaw and the M.I.N.D. Institute
Clinical research in mind and music
http://www.MINDInst.org/MIND2/research.html
Mental Health Net
The largest, most comprehensive guide to mental health online, featuring over 7,000 individual resources
http://www.mhnet.org/
Music Education Online
Multiple of music in Education from the children's music workshop in LA
http://www.childrensmusicworkshop.com/
Neuroscience for Kids: The Musical Brain
Easy intro to the brain and music
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/music.html
