Congratulations to Drs. Thaut and Koshimori for receiving a GRAMMY Museum Award! The PET project investigates whether rhythm and music modulates dopaminergic function in Parkinson’s disease.
Check out the GRAMMY Museum Award details here.
Interested in participating in this study? See the flyer here .
This Special Issue from Journal of Clinical Medicine is led by Dr. Yuko Koshimori.
Deadline is 25 September, 2025.
Check out the details here
This Special Issue from Brain Sciences is led by Dr. Michael H. Thaut.
Deadline is 31 July, 2025.
Check out the details here
Dr. Thaut has been invited to join as commissioner on the LANCET/WHO Neurology Commission for Neurorehabilitation. The commission is charged with developing and advancing new research and clinical initiatives in brain health for neurological disabilities across the globe.
● $1 million endowment from scholar and musician Elaine Keillor to enhance music and health research
● Read about it here
Congratulations to the following teams for being selected by their respective journals as Editor’s Choice:
● Fischer CE, Churchill N, Leggieri M, Vuong V, Tau M, Fornazzari LR, Schweizer T, Thaut MH. 2021. Long known music exposure effects on brain imaging and cognition in early-state cognitive decline. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, doi 10.3233/JAD-210610
● Vuong V, Patterson KK, Cole LP, Henechowicz TL, Sheridan C, Green REA, Thaut MH. 2021. Relationship between cognition and gait at 2 and 12 months post traumatic brain injury. Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences, doi:010.3389/fresc.2021.726452
● Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT) request for services can be found here
● MaHRC and CNN’s Carol Rosenstein discuss musical memory during COVID-19 in this segment of CNN Hereos: Music Mends Minds
● Watch the video here
● Read the article here
● Co-PIs Dr. Sageev Oore (Dalhousie University) and Dr. Michael Thaut; Co-Investigator Veronica Vuong
● Grant awarded for project “Adaptive Generative Rhythmic Models for Neurorehabilitation”