Ellisa sits down with Emily Pivovarnik MM, MT-BC, NICU-MT to discuss music therapy in a children’s hospital. Emily educates us on her research, writing and music therapy work in neonatal intensive care.

Maggie sits down with Patina and asks her about her personal journey to entrepreneurship in music therapy and more specifically about her successful online music therapy resource company called, “Music Therapy Joy”.

Elizabeth walks us through the eighth sense of interoception and discusses how it may impact a few different populations in music therapy.

The study sought to understand how music therapy altered mood for adolescents participating in group services as well as the effect that demographics had on mood alteration, or not. The study was conducted at a large pediatric psychiatric hospital and included over 350 participants aged 12-21 in 3 different units of the hospital.

You’ve probably heard people say things like “music is good medicine” or “music is good for you”. Is there something scientific to this old adage? Ellisa is going to synthesize a research review for you by authors Mona Lisa Chandra and Daniel J. Levitin called “The Neurochemistry of Music”.

Around the dawn of the 1930’s, when sound was synchronized with celluloid of movie film, composers began to compose scores to match films, most of which was orchestral music from band composers. In 1951, the score for the film A Street Car Named Desire set the stage for Western, Original music compositions in film. Soon after-the song" “Oh, My Darling” was so successful that there was high demand for original music to be written for movies for both promotional purposes and to radio airtime.

This week's segment is our learning week of September and we’re going to be answering the internet's most asked questions about music therapy. I’ve compiled this list that was generated from the website “answer the public”. It will be a little random, but it’s going to be fun. With that, let’s turn it over to the people and answer the internet's most asked questions about music therapy! 

Today I’ll be comparing and contrasting Neurologic Music Therapy and Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy. In the small, but ever growing field of Music Therapists, most everyone recognizes these names and also recognizes the small, but maybe not so subtle, differences between the two. Are these two approaches really as contrasting as we think? What makes them so different and why have they become so polarized? These are just a few of the questions that came to mind when I chose this topic.