BACKGROUND Music therapy may provide a means of improving mental health among people with schizophrenia, but its effects in acute psychoses have not been explored. AIMS To examine the feasibility of a randomised trial of music therapy for inpatients with schizophrenia, and explore its effects on mental health. METHOD Up to 12 weeks of individual music therapy plus standard care were compare...

Music therapists regard music therapy as a valuable intervention for students with moderate to severe intellectual disability or multiple disabilities, but many special educators would regard it as a controversial practice, unsupported by empirical research. This paper reviews the goals and strategies used by music therapists working with students with severe disabilities and the purported outc...

comparison of the effect of instrumental music and voices of holy quran on anxiety of woman before cesarean.     sharifi a [1] *, alipour a [2] , baharloei s [3]     received: 24 aug, 2012 accepted: 20 nov, 2012   abstract   background & aims : fear and anxiety before surgery characterized with the stress with arousal of the autonomic nervous system that causes physical and psychological change...

The aim was to investigate the benefits derived from implementation of music therapy palliative care in patients diagnosed with neoplasms. This is exploratory bibliographic research where databases used were: LILACS, MedLine, magazines and books using keywords such as: "cancer", "music therapy", "music", "palliative care", “psychology”, “musicotherapy”, “mental health”, through treatments sugge...

Research indicates that music therapists are likely to make use of computer software, designed to measure changes in the way a patient and therapist make use of music in music therapy sessions. A proof of concept study investigated whether music analysis algorithms (designed to retrieve information from commercial music recordings) can be adapted to meet the needs of music therapists. Computati...

background: many alternative interventions are practiced in an effort to reduce symptoms of fibromiyalgia. the aim of this study was to determine the effects of sleep and touch therapy accompanied by music and aromatherapy on the symptoms of fibromyalgia and depression. methods: the study was carried out between september 2009 and march 2011 in the physical medicine and rehabilitation polyclini...

BACKGROUND Children and adolescents with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) presenting with significant limitations in conventional forms of verbal and non-verbal communication are found to respond positively to music therapy intervention involving both active, improvizational methods and receptive music therapy approaches. Improvizational musical activity with therapeutic objectives and outcomes...