Handbook of Neurologic Music Therapy

Michael H Thaut received his masters and PhD in music from Michigan State University with a minor in movement science. He also holds diplomas from the Mozarteum Music University in Salzburg/Austria and the University of Muenster/Germany. At Colorado State University he is a Professor of Music and a Professor of Neuroscience and served as Dean of the School of the Arts from 2001 to 2010. He has been the Director of the Center for Biomedical Research in Music since 1994 His internationally recognized research in brain function and music focuses on temporal information processing in the brain related to rhythmicity and biomedical applications of music to neurologic rehabilitation. His discoveries how auditory rhythm entrains motor and cognitive functions have led to landmark changes how music has become recognized as a language of brain rehabilitation. He has over 180 scientific and scholarly publications and has (co)authored 4 books.

1. Neurologic Music Therapy: From Social Science to Neuroscience ; 2. The Role of NMT in Neurologic Rehabilitation ; 3. Music Technology for Neurologic Music Therapy ; 4. Clinical Improvisation in Neurologic Music Therapy ; 5. Patterned Sensory Enhancement and Constraint Induced Therapy: A perspective from occupational therapy to interdisciplinary upper extremity rehabilitation ; 6. Assessment and the Transformational Design Model ; 7. Rhythmic auditory stimulation (RAS) in (gait) rehabilitation for patients with Parkinson's Disease: A research perspective ; 8. Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation ; 9. Patterned Sensory Enhancement (PSE) ; 10. Therapeutical Instrumental Music Performance ; 11. Melodic Intonation Therapy (MIT) ; 12. Musical Speech Stimulation (MUSTIM) ; 13. Rhythmic Speech Cueing ; 14. Oral Motor and Respiratory Exercises (OMREX) ; 15. Vocal Intonation Therapy (VIT) ; 16. Therapeutic Singing (TS) ; 17. Developmental Speech and Language Training Through Music ; 18. Symbolic Communication Training through Music (SYCOM) ; 19. Musical Sensory Orientation Training (MSOT) ; 20. Auditory Perception Training (APT) ; 21. Musical Attention Control Training ; 22. Musical Neglect Training (MNT) ; 23. Musical Executive Function Training (MEFT) ; 24. Musical Mnemonics Training (MMT) ; 25. Musical Echoic Memory Training ; 26. Associative Mood and Memory Training (AMMT) ; 27. Music in Psychosocial Training and Counseling (MPC)