Music and Medicine

Gunter Kreutz is a trained musicologist with interest in the effects of musical activities in every-day life across the lifespan. Gunter has led various research projects funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research on the consequences of music instrument learning and playing in primary school children. Recently, he has led an arm of an EU-project on Music Interventions for Dementia and Depression in Elderly Care (MIDDEL). Further research activities concern the value of singing in healthy adults and in people living with communication and health issues. Günther Bernatzky is a biologist with expertise in medicine and medical research. He is expert in pain-physiology and complementary pain-therapy with emphasis on music listening and other non-invasive and non-pharmacological methods. Günther has directed his research at patients living with chronic pain and also individuals living with Parkinson's disease. His research interests also extend to singing and dancing.Günther is highly interested in promoting music in medical practice beyond research and has successfully published CDs and other materials which document the uses of music in every-day life.

Introduction.- Part I. Socio-cultural, genetic and neurobiological foundations.- Music and well-being - a dynamically growing field of research.- Music and medicine - an overview.- Epidemiological studies on music and health.- Music and brain plasticity.- Mood in the musical brain.- Historical musician's medicine.- Part II. Music in clinical and educational inclusion practice.- Music medicine interventions in clinical medicine for pain, anxiety and stress.- Listening to music in depression and dementia: from brain research to clinical application.- Making music with hearing impaired children.- Inclusion, cultural participation and music.- The voice and opera doctor.- Part III. Music therapy in transition.- Introduction to Neurological Music Therapy.- Music therapy for children and young people with mental health problems - an overview.- Music for people with neurogenic disorders of consciousness.- Music in the treatment of depression from the perspective of music therapy and music psychology.- Music and cerebral palsy.- Part IV. Listening to music, amateur music-making and dancing.- Listening to music in everyday life.- Listening to music during the Covid-19 pandemic.- Listening to music and emotion regulation in adulthood.- Music as a trigger of strong emotions.- Health aspects of lay singing.- Health aspects of dance.- Part V. Musical education and well-being.- Health of the child's voice.- Singing voice and health.- Making music and emotion regulation in primary school children.- Music and cognitive development.- Positive effects of music making on perception and cognition from a neuroscientific perspective.- Performance and Stage Fright - Acquiring Competence through Musical Education in Childhood and Adolescence.- Healthy music making - prevention in instrumental lessons for children and young people.- Part VI. Health risks due to music.- Can music also make you ill?.- Hearing damage due to music consumption.- The dissected soul: music as an instrumentof torture.- Practical music practice in times of Corona.