Music Therapy | Research
What does research prove about the value of music therapy?
Documentation of clinical research confirming the therapeutic effects of music on a variety of populations is available in the following locations:
- MusicWorx research bibliography
- MusicWorx media archives
- American Music Therapy Association
MusicWorx Research Bibliography
The 17-page MusicWorx research bibliography is a diverse listing of recent abstracts, articles, books, and research papers devoted to the subjects of music therapy and music therapy research, compiled by Dr. Barbara Reuer, founder and CEO of MusicWorx Inc. Saved in PDF format, the bibliography is viewable using Adobe Acrobat Reader. We suggest that you save a copy of the entire document to your hard drive to print from your desktop.
»MusicWorx Research Bibliography PDF
MusicWorx Media Archives
The MusicWorx media archives contain articles written and published about the 30-year-span of professional work by Dr. Barbara Reuer.
»MusicWorx Media Coverage Archives
American Music Therapy Association
AMTA has promoted a vast amount of research to explore and document the benefits of music as therapy through publication of the Journal of Music Therapy and Music Therapy Perspectives, among others.
Music Therapy and Neuroscience
UCSD Music and the Mind Video
This must-see 30-minute interview of doctors Barbara Reuer and Aniruddh Patel reveals ground-breaking discoveries being made by neuroscientists researching the effects of music on the human brain.