Local therapist uses music to unlock mysteries of challenged minds
Robert Doten's business card really could read: "Therapist for hire. Have guitar. Will travel."
http://www.yumasun.com/onset?id=32899&template=article.html
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....
Program Uses Music To Help Children Suffering From Asthma
Some students at Public School 146 may be getting turned on to a love of music, but it is also helping with something else; all suffer from asthma.
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=19&aid=68015
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...
A Musician Who Performs With a Scalpel
He recently published a provocative paper suggesting that music may exert healing and sedative effects partly through a paradoxical stimulation of a growth hormone generally associated with stress rather than healing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/health/20prof.html?th&emc=th
Arts and Healing Network
On-line resource for anyone interested in the healing potential of art.
http://www.artheals.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
Daily Doses of Bach and Breathing Lower Blood Pressure
Spending just 30 minutes a day listening to rhythmically homogeneous music -- anything from classical to Celtic to Indian -- has a beneficial effect on blood pressure, researchers found.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/ASH/tb/9597
Hospital Audiences, Inc.
Well Established organization with multiple arts programs for Hospitals in the New York area
http://www.hospitalaudiences.org/
Institute for Music and Neurologic Function: Beth Abraham Hospital
Paramount program in music and brain study
http://www.bethabe.org/MUSIC_INSTITUTE55.html
Listening to music can reduce chronic pain and depression by up to a quarter
Listening to music can reduce chronic pain by up to 21 per cent and depression by up to 25 per cent, according to a paper in the latest UK-based Journal of Advanced Nursing.
http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid...
Medicine with a melody
Hospital using music therapy to help heal
http://www.hawkcentral.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070325/NEWS01/...
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. 2 - Heal the Body: Music for Rest and Relaxation
Music specially sequenced for relaxation and recovery. Also useful pre and post medical procedures.
http://www.mozarteffect.com/OnlineStore/MERCProductd.php?d=6502
Music: Physician for Times to Come
Anthology edited by Don Campbell on music, health and therapy.
http://www.mozarteffect.com/OnlineStore/MERCProductd.php?d=0788
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...
Now in the Recovery Room, Music for Hearts to Heal By
Four-week study, one of several around the country, measures the health benefits of music in hospitals
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/28/nyregion/28harp.html?ex=1157515200&e...
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 Society for the Arts in Healthcare
Visionary Arts Society
http://www.societyartshealthcare.org/
American Music Therapy Association
Association for Music Therapists, numerous resources.
http://www.musictherapy.org/
AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS
Art information Clearninghouse
http://www.artsusa.org/
Art and Medicine Aotearoa NZ
Medicine and the Arts resource
http://www.converge.org.nz/amanz/
Autism Society of America
The leading voice and resource of the entire Autism community in education, advocacy, services, research and support.
http://www.autism-society.org
Cousins, NormanAnatomy of an Illness (As Perceived by the Patient)
Comprehensive resource in MEDICAL HUMANITIES
http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/cou...
Educator's Reference Desk
High-quality resources and services to the education community.
http://www.eduref.org/
Graduate School Programs in Arts Therapy (including Creative Arts Therapy and Music Therapy)
National programs on Creative Arts therapies
http://www.gradschools.com/listings/all/art_therapy.html
Harp Therapy Journal
Articles on Harp Therapy for practical and professional use
http://www.harptherapy.com/
IAMIC -- International Association of Music Information Centres
Fine Resource for Music Information
http://www.iamic.net/
Indiana University's Worldwide Internet Music Resources
Extensive music resource list mostly relating to performance, musicology, pedagogy etc.
http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/
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/
ISME-International Society for Music Education
Respected research society in Music Education worldwide
http://www.isme.org/
Journal "Médicine des Arts"
fine website in French and English on the use of Arts as Medicine
http://www.arts-medicine.com
Links to art and healing sites
Progressive and useful links to art and healing
http://www.artashealing.org/ahfw4.htm
Mickey Hart
Drumming and wellness
http://www.mickeyhart.net/home/
Multisensory Sound Lab Transforms Sound Into Light and Vibrations
Hearing through physical and visual stimulation
http://www.ovalwindowaudio.com/soundlab1.html
Music Medicine research
The effects of musical rhythm
http://www.reiinstitute.com/
Musicians and Injuries
Info and resources relating to common injuries suffered by musicians.
http://www.engr.unl.edu/ee/eeshop/music.html
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/
National Network for the Arts in Health-- London
Where the arts sector and the health sector collide, forms a field of practice, Arts in Health. Arts in Health as a field has several distinct areas of practice
http://www.nnah.org.uk/
NewJour-Electronic Journals and Newletters
20,000 journals, links and news sources
http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/
Performing Arts Medicine Association
Non-profit professional organization for physicians and other professional persons who are involved in treatment and/or research in the field of Performing Arts Medicine.
http://www.artsmed.org/
Shands Healthcare - Arts in Medicine
Program utilizing dance, music, drama, creative writing and the visual arts to enhance the patient experience.
http://shands.org/AIM/
The Boys Choir of Harlem
Hard work, discipline and tough love help inner-city choristers achieve lofty goals
http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues99/dec99/choir.html
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/
Association for the Advancement of Arts Education
Art Education
http://www.aaae.org/
German Society for Music Psychology (Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Musikpsychologie)
Germany music Psychology Society
http://musicweb.hmt-hannover.de/dgm/english/index.html
Institute of Physiology and Medicine of Art
Spanish hospital focused on medical conditions of artists.
www.institutart.com
International Conference of Symphony and Opera Musicians
Trade group for Symphony and Opera Musicians.
http://www.icsom.org/
Medical Humanities: Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database
Valuable data base in medical arts and humanities
http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/topview.html
Music Helps the Body Heal
Soothing melodies play part in recovery
http://www.healthscout.com/template.asp?page=newsdetail&ap=1&id=99329
Presented at MedArt International World Congress on Arts and Medicine, February 28, 1992: Composing a New Language
Therapy and the depth of musical language
http://www.maltedmedia.com/books/papers/s6-compo.html
The Alternative Medicine Homepage
jumpstation for sources of information on unconventional, unorthodox, unproven, or alternative, complementary, innovative, integrative therapies.
http://www.pitt.edu/~cbw/database.html
Very Special Arts
Extensive use in creative arts for special needs children and adults
http://www.vsarts.org/
