Project team
Jorg Fachner
Professor
Together with music therapy, health, and computer science researchers in Austria, we were keen to investigate intervention timing and shared moments of interest in neurorehabilitation. For this we brought the lab to the bedside to study patient needs and interactive responses, aiming to realise a just-in-time research agenda of personalised music therapy interventions.
This research protocol aimed to bring the lab and field closer together by capturing real-world music therapy sessions in situ. We adapted EEG and ECG procedures to measure the heart and brain activity of both therapist and patient during and after therapy, and asked them about moments during the session that stood out to them. This work opened a new chapter in ARU’s clinical social neuroscience research.
2016: Kick-off meeting in Krems, September.
2017: Feasibility study with medical actors from Medical University Vienna finalised to test hyperscanning set-up with blinded therapist.
2018: Confirmation from CDG to continue.
2019: First hyperscanning study in music therapy (Fachner et al 2019) published and feasibility study started.
2020: Protocol and feasibility study finalised, and main study started.
2021: Main study data collection finalised.
2022: CDG funding ended.
Yap, S. S. (2024) Synchrony during music therapy and its relationship to self-reported therapy readiness: a mixed-methods case series study. PhD thesis, Anglia Ruskin University. Available at: https://doi.org/10.25411/aru.27257397.v2
Heine, A. (2024) Moments of interest in music therapy with persons after a stroke. PhD thesis, Anglia Ruskin University.
Fachner, J. and Yap, S. S. (submitted) 'Make the invisible visible – towards process-based outcome research on mechanisms of change in music therapy'. In: Raglio, A. (Ed.) (forthcoming) Music and Music Therapy Interventions in Clinical Practice. Cham: Springer.
Yap, S. S., Ramseyer, F., Fachner, J., Maidhof, C., Tschacher, W. and Tucek, G. (2022) 'Dyadic nonverbal synchrony during pre and post music therapy interventions and its relationship to self-reported therapy readiness', Frontiers of Human Neuroscience, 16, 912729. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.912729
Tucek, G., Maidhof, C., Vogl, J., Heine, A., Zeppelzauer, M., Steinhoff, N. and Fachner, J. (2022) 'EEG hyperscanning and qualitative analysis of moments of interest in music therapy for stroke rehabilitation – a feasibility study', Brain Sciences, 12(565). Available at: https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12050565
Fachner, J., Maidhof, C., Heine, A., Vogl, J., Steinhoff, N. and Tucek, G. (2021) 'From the lab to the field – EEG hyperscanning and qualitative analysis of moments of interest in music therapy for stroke rehabilitation' ['"Vom Labor ans Krankenbett": EEG-Hyperscanning und qualitative Analyse bedeutsamer musiktherapeutischer Momente in der Neurorehabilitation – ein Studienprotokoll'], Musiktherapeutsche Umschau, 42(4), pp. 360-375. Available at: https://doi.org/10.13109/muum.2021.42.4.360
Fachner, J. (2020) 'Situationisten, Kairos und Hyper Brains – Moment mal!', Musiktherapeutische Umschau, 41(4), pp. 410-418. Available at: https://doi.org/10.13109/muum.2020.41.4.410
Fachner, J. C., Maidhof, C., Grocke, D., Nygaard Pedersen, I., Trondalen, G., Tucek, G. and Bonde, L. O. (2019) '"Telling me not to worry…" Hyperscanning and Neural Dynamics of Emotion Processing During Guided Imagery and Music', Front Psychol, 10, 1561. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01561
Fachner, J. (2017) 'Music, moments and healing processes: Music therapy'. In: Ashley, R. and Timmers, R. (Eds.) (2017) Routledge Companion to Music Cognition. London: Routledge, pp. 89-100.
Fachner, J., Erkkila, J. and Brabant, O. (2017) 'On musical identities, social pharmacology and intervention timing in music therapy'. In: Hargreaves, D., MacDonald, R. and Miell, D. (Eds.) (2017) Musical Identities. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 682-700.
Brains in sync, ARU research case study
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