CIMTR Public Research Lecture: Unlikely Allies: Concepts and Considerations of Music-based Therapies and Interventions in tertiary NICU care

Join ARU's Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research (CIMTR) online for a talk from Artur Jaschke on the benefits of specialised music therapy for neonates and their caregivers.

Music-based therapies and interventions have been studied over the past decades and proven effective on physiological and psychological outcomes, including sucking, behaviour, stress reduction, neurodevelopment and promoting emotional bonding. However, not every neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) administers music-based interventions in their ward.

Research in the realm of music-based therapies and interventions for neonates and their caregivers has lately accumulated, increasing the evidence of health benefits across a variety of NICU-related pathologies. To integrate health benefits into everyday clinical practice in the NICU, it is crucial to have trained and highly skilled music therapists to provide specialised music therapy to these vulnerable individuals in the most critical period of their brain development.

This talk will review the available and studied methods of music therapy in the context of a possible introduction to neonatal intensive care for clinical benefit.

Speaker

Artur Jaschke is a Reader (Lector) in Music-based Therapies and Interventions and in Ecologies of Clinical Neuromusicology: Creative AI, Music Sciences and Health Care Applications, at the Department of Music Therapy at ArtEZ University of the Arts in Enschede, the Netherlands.

He specialises in the interrelation of music, technology, and brain maturation in clinical and non-clinical populations. He is also a clinical Research Fellow in cognitive neuroscience of music at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the University Medical Center Groningen and CIMTR.