Handbook of Neurologic Music Therapy

Prof. Michael H. Thaut, is a Professor in the Faculty of Music and the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He holds a TIER I CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR IN MIUSIC, NEUROSCIENCE, AND HEALTH endowed by the Federal Government of Canada. He received his Master's and PhD in Music from Michigan State University, with a cognate minor in neuroscience. He holds a special diploma in music from the Mozarteum University in Salzburg/Austria. He is an international leader in basic and clinical auditory and music neuroscience, with over 300 scientific publications and is senior editor of the Oxford Handbooks of Music and Brain and Neurologic Music Therapy. Among other appointments he is on the Governing Board of WFNR and an Overseas Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine/ UK. Prof. Volker Hömberg had his medical education at the Universities of Düsseldorf, Freiburg and Boston Massachusetts. His last role was as the Medical Director and Head of Neurology of the Dept. of Neurology at the Gesundheitszentrum Bad Wimpfen and worked as senior neurology advisor for the SRH-Group. He retired from his clinical responsibilities in Sept 2022. He was also the founder, president and vice president of the German Society for Neurorehabilitation for many years. He served as Secretary General for the World Federation of Neurorehabilitation (WFNR) for more than 15 years and was elected President Elect of WFNR in 2020 and took over the presidency in Dec 2022.He is also Vice President of the European Federation of Neurorehabilitation Societies. (EFNR).

1: Michael H. Thaut, Gerald C. McIntosh, Volker Hoemberg: Neurologic music therapy: from social science to neuroscience
2: Volker Hoemberg: A neurologist's view on neurologic music therapy
3: Stefan Mainka, Marijke Groothuis, Carola Werger, Ed Roth: Music technology for neurologic music therapy
4: Nicole Richard, Anna Karpazis, Ed Roth: Clinical improvistation for neurologic music therapy
5: Crystal Massie: Patterned sensory enhancement and constraint induced therapy: a perspective
6: Corene P. Thaut, Michael H. Thaut: Assessment and the transformational design model [TDM]
7: Yuko Koshimori, Michael H. Thaut: Future perspectives on neural mechanisms underlying rhythm and music based neurorehabilitation in Parkinson's disease
8: Corene P. Thaut, Ruth Rice: Rhythmic auditory stimulation [RAS]
9: Corene P. Thaut: Patterned sensory enhancement [PSE]
10: Kathrin Mertel: Therapeutic instrumental music playing [TIMP]
11: Michael H. Thaut, Corene P. Thaut, Gerald C. McIntosh, Caitlin Hebb: Melodic intonation therapy [MIT]
12: Corene P. Thaut: Musical speech stimulation [MUSTIM]
13: Stefan Mainka, Grit Mallien: Rhythmic speech cuing [RSC]
14: Kathrin Mertel: Oral motor and respiratory exercises [OMREX]
15: Corene P. Thaut, Charlene Santoni, Darryl Edwards: Vocal intonation therapy
16: Charlene Santoni: Therapeutic singing
17: Corene P. Thaut, Elizabeth Nightingale: Developmental speech and language training through music [DSLM]
18: Corene P. Thaut: Symbolic communication training
19: Audun Myskja, Jessica Teich: Musical sensory orientation training
20: Kathrin Mertel: Auditory perception training [APT]
21: Laurine Hakvoort, Cheryl Jones, James C. Gardiner, Michael H. Thaut: Musical attention control training [MACT]
22: Kyurim Kang, Mutsumi Abiru: Musical neglect training [MNT]
23: Shantala Hegde, Michael H. Thaut, James C. Gardiner: Musical executive function training [MEFT]
24: Gabriela Echauri, Liliana Gassull, James C. Gardiner, Michael H. Thaut: Musical mnemonics training [MMT]
25: Michael H. Thaut: Musical echoic memory training [MEM]
26: Shannon de L'Etoile, Cheryl Jones: Associative mood and memory training [AMMT]
27: Corene P. Thaut, Barbara Wheeler: Music in psychosocial training and counseling [MPC]