Comitato Scientifico ed Editoriale
Co-Editors-in-Chief:
Amy Clements-Cortés, PhD, RP, MTA, MT-BC
Music and Health Sciences, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Prof.Dr.med. Ralph Spintge
Professor and lecturer for MusicMedicine, Institute for Music Therapy, HfMT University, Hamburg, Germany
Director Emeritus, Regional Pain Center, Sportklinik Hellersen, Luedenscheid, Germany
Director, Institute for Medical Music Research IMUR, Lüdenscheid / Plauen, Germany
Associate Editors:
Marija Pranjić, PhD, MT-BC
Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience, Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Mark Ettenberger, PhD, MA, MT
SONO-Centro de Musicoterapia, Bogotá, Colombia
Production Editor:
Erik Baumann, MA, MMT
Asociación de Musicoterapia del Perú (AMUSIPE), Lima, Peru
International Abstract Editor:
Bernardo Canga, MMT
Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA
Editorial Board
Joanne V. Loewy, DA, MT-BC , LCAT, The Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine, Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center, United States
Ralph KW Spintge, MD, Institute for Music Therapy University of Music & Drama Hamburg Germany Director, Institute for Medical Music Research IMUR Luedenscheid, Hamburg, Lüdenscheid, Plauen, Germany
Eckart Altenmüller, MD, PhD, Prof. em. University of Music, Drama, and Media, Former Head of the Hannover Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine, Germany
Erik Baumann, MMT, Asociación Peruana de Musicoterapia, Peru
Sarah Bidelka, MMT, MT-BC, Drexel University, Department of Creative Arts Therapies, United States
Joke Bradt, PhD, MT-BC, Drexel University, Department of Creative Arts Therapies, United States
Elsa Campbell, PhD, mdw - University of Music and performing Arts Vienna, Austria
Bernardo Canga, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, USA
ChihChen Sophia Lee, PhD, LPMT, MT-BC, Professor, Director of Music Therapy, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, United States
Hyun Ju Chong, PhD, MT-BC, FAMI, Music Therapy Dept. Ewha Womans University, Korea, Republic of
Dr John Peter Chong, MD, Medical Director, Musicians' Clinics of Canada, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Amy Clements-Cortés, PhD, RP, MT-BC, MTA, Associate Professor, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, Canada
Mark Ettenberger, PhD, MT, Department of Music Therapy, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
Sunelle Fouché, MA, Music Therapy Community Clinic Cape Town Area, South Africa
Stéphane Guétin, MD, Department of Neurology, Centre Mémoire de Ressources et de Recherches (CMRR), Montpellier University Hospital, Montpellier, France
Friederike Haslbeck, PhD, DMtG, SFMT, Neonatology, UniversitatsSpital Zurich, Switzerland
Annie Heiderscheit, PhD, MT-BC, LMFT Professor of Music Therapy and Director of the Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Sarah Helander, MMT, NICU-MT, HCPC-R, Self-Employed Music Psychotherapist & External Advisor for Humanitarian Organizations, Finland
Farah Husain, MBBS, DNB Anesthesiology, Music Therapy (Yenepoya Medical College, Karnataka), Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Lok Nayak Hospital & Maulana Azad Medicial College, New Delhi, India
Artur Jaschke, MA, Music Therapy and Cognitive Neuroscience of Music, ArtEZ University, Neonatology, University Medical Centre Groningen, Clinical Neuropsychology, VU University, Netherlands
Karen Johnston, MD, PHD., Neurosurgery, Canada
Kyurim Kang, PhD, MT-BC, LPMT, Postdoctoral research fellow / Neurologic Music Therapist - Fellow, Center for Music and Medicine, Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States
Pornpan Kaenampornpan, PhD, Faculty of Fine and Applies Arts Khon Kaen University, Thailand
Aksana Kavaliova, Family Counseling Centre Niagara, and Private Practice, Niagara on the Lake, Ontario Canada, Bahrain
Sonnet L'Abbe, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
Klaus-Felix Laczika, MD, Medical University Vienna Department of Internal Medicine I, Austria
Jin Hyung Lee, PhD, KCMT, MT-BC, Academic Director, MA in Music Therapy, Chulalongkorn University
Teresa Lynn Lesiuk, PhD, University of Miami, United States
Frances Hendriëhetta Le Roux, MSc, PhD, Private Practice, Fish Hoek, South Africa
Marcela Lichtensztejn, MA, MT-BC, Director of Music Therapy Program, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Business and Social Sciences, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dorothee von Moreau, Prof. Dr., University of Music and Drama Hamburg, Co-Head of Institute of Music Therapy, Germany
Hilary Moss, PhD, University of Limerick, Ireland
Kristen Stewart, PhDcand, LCAT, MT-BC, Assistant Director / Clinical Director, The Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine
Monika Nöcker-Ribaupierre, PhD, former Head of Freies Musikzentrum München, Germany
Paul Nolan, MMT, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Hanne Mette Ochsner Ridder, PhD, Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University, Denmark
Anni Pitkäniemi, PhD, Clinical Neuropsychologist, Music, Ageing and Rehabilitation Team (MART), Cognitive Brain Research Unit (CBRU), Department of Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland
Marija Pranjić, PhD, MT-BC, Harvard Medical School & Boston Children's Hospital, United States
Professor Phillip L. Pearl, MD, Harvard Medical School, United States
Alexia Ratazzi, MD, Child Adolescent Psychiatry, PANACEAA, Argentina
Alison Rigby, MS, MA, MT-BC, PhD Student, University of California, San Diego, Neurosciences Graduate Program
Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells, PhD, Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit ICREA & Department of Basic Psychology (Campus de Bellvitge) & IDIBELL University of Barcelona L'Hospitalet (Barcelona), Spain
Andrew Rossetti PhD, LCAT, MT-BC The Lousi Armstrong Center for Music & Medicne, Mount Sinai Healthcare System
Prof. Teppo Särkämö, Associate Professor (PhD, Docent), Music, Ageing and Rehabilitation Team (MART), Cognitive Brain Research Unit (CBRU), Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland
Joseph Schlesinger, MD, FCCM, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, United States
Helen Shoemark, PhD, Prof Emerita Temple University, United States
Amanda Soebadi, MD, M.Med (ClinNeurophysiol), Department of Child Health, Universitas Indonesia Faculty of Medicine, Jakarta, Indonesia
Thomas Stegemann, MD, MT, University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, Austria
Sumathy Sundar, PhD, Chennai School of Music Therapy, India
Patsy Tan, PhD, MT-BC, RMT, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide University, Australia
Julian Thayer, PhD, Department of Psychology, Ohio State University, Ohio, United States
Hans-Joachim Trappe, MD, Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Germany
Alan Turry, DA, MT-BC, LCAT Nordoff Robbins Center for Music Therapy, New York University, United States
Patravoot Vatanasapt, MD, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Thailand
Juri Yun, MT-DMtg, KCMT, Ewha Music Wellness Center, Korea, Republic of
Liza Wu, MA, MT-BC, LCAT, NMT, Music Therapist, NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital