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IMNF
VISION
2025
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LEADING THE WAY IN: • Educating the public on emerging music and neuroscience research as it relates to health and development. • Promoting dialogues across disciplines of neuroscience, medicine, psychology and music therapy. • Advancing best practices in music therapy through education and training. • Consulting with technology companies to extend music-based interventions. • Advocating for access to music therapy services.
ABOU T
VALUES
The Institute for Music and Neurologic Function (IMNF) is an internationally recognized non-profit agency engaging in research, education and training and offering groundbreaking music therapy programs to restore, maintain and improve patients’ physical, emotional and neurological function through the methodical use of music.
IMNF believes:
MISSION Through the scientific exploration of music and the brain, IMNF seeks to establish new knowledge and to develop more effective music therapy treatments to awaken, stimulate and heal through the extraordinary power of music.
VISION As an international model, IMNF will integrate emergent neuroscience to advance clinical music therapy practice.
• Music affects the whole person: body, mind and spirit. • Music is integral to human development and has the power to awaken, stimulate and heal. • Everyone can benefit from music, and those with neurologic challenges should have access to music therapy. • Collaboration with scientists, educators, government policy makers, music therapists, technology companies and healthcare entities advances our mission. • Technology accelerates the delivery of the therapeutic aspects of music to benefit those who have limited access to music therapy. • In the highest level of ethical standards and integrity and applying it to all research, education and clinical practice.
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IMNF VISION 2025 Dear Friend of IMNF: Can music change the brain? Promote health? We are at an exciting crossroad. IMNF was established in 1995 to bridge the fields of neuroscience and music therapy and to increase dialogues across these disciplines to promote the efficacy of music-based interventions for those with a wide array of neurologic challenges. In the early 1980s, working alongside co-founder and renowned author Dr. Oliver Sacks, I knew that music was providing structure and arousal to allow improved function in our patients – but why? In our search for answers and through the help of generous donors, IMNF sponsored basic music perception studies and international symposia and began to identify clinical protocols for music therapy applications in stroke and dementia care. In our first 25 years, we have trained over 250 music therapists, presented at close to 1,000 conferences and have reached millions through media coverage. The field of neuroscience and
music perception has grown tremendously over these years, and now we know that music does have positive effects on so many aspects of brain development and health. For this reason – and with your support – we want to bring our knowledge and expertise to impact healthy aging – from brain development in young children to prevention of falls in seniors. We believe that creative, nonverbal expression can help build emotional resilience and executive function in young children with language delays and behavioral issues. We know that active music engagement can help seniors maintain short-term memory function and improve balance and general mobility. We also know that music therapy can have an enormous impact on those with brain injuries by helping restore function and improve quality of life. We will expand our research partnerships to advance these efforts and share our knowledge through best practice trainings. Thank you for sharing this journey with us and for helping us help others through the Power of Music. Concetta M. Tomaino, DA, LCAT, MT-BC Executive Director, Co-founder
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STRATEGIC INITIATIVES CLINICAL MUSIC THERAPY The IMNF Music Therapy Professionals Practice enables us to provide our renowned music therapy programs in the NY metropolitan area (on campus, in homes and at clinic sites). With advances in technology, we also have the capacity for international consultations. Our goal is to apply our expertise in music therapy to benefit people of all ages, including children with developmental needs. IMNF will also be developing group wellness programs that will be open to members of the community who want to maintain their health and wellness. Intensive Treatment Programs Neurologic conditions: • Parkinson’s disease and movement disorders • Dementia • Stroke • Developmental delays
Community Support Programs • Parkinson’s disease • Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) • Aphasia
ONE OF OUR GOALS IS TO BRING
MUSIC THERAPY BEST PRACTICES TO WEB-BASED TECHNOLOGIES TO MEET THE GROWING NEED.
HISTORY The Institute developed out of the many years of clinical work and research of renowned author and neurologist Oliver Sacks, MD, and music therapist Concetta M. Tomaino, DA, MT-BC, who demonstrated that people with neurological problems could learn to move better, remember more and even regain speech when music was used in specific ways. In 1995, under the leadership of Edwin H. Stern III, Arnold H. Goldstein and the late Ben Rizzi, the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function was founded to pursue this passion and this mission – to bring together the two worlds of basic neuroscience and clinical music therapy.
TO ADVANCE EVIDENCE-BASED MUSIC THERAPY PRACTICE.
EDUCATION IMNF offers a series of workshops to help music therapists, scientists and other healthcare professionals to expand their expertise. In addition, IMNF recognizes the future of music therapy by providing internships to music therapy students, providing clinical training for international music therapy students and accrediting organizations and best practices. IMNF has trained hundreds of medical rehabilitation professionals globally to use clinical protocols developed by IMNF.
RESEARCH IMNF is committed to collaborations with basic science, cognitive neuroscience and social sciences to advance evidence-based clinical music therapy practice. IMNF assists other organizations on their research projects as needed and seeks funding to support our work.
Clinical protocols include using music to: enhance gait in people with Parkinson’s; improve speech in people with aphasia and memory in people with cognitive impairment.
Areas of Current Research • Aphasia • Dementia and cognition
“I look forward to following the groundbreaking work of IMNF as it continues the scientific exploration of the power of music therapy to awaken, stimulate and heal the brain” - Renée Fleming
1991
1993
Oliver Sacks and Concetta (Connie) Tomaino, a physician and
Beth Abraham Health Services hosts its first
a music therapist who work at Beth Abraham in the Bronx,
international music therapy conference, “Clinical
NY, publish “Music and Neurological Disorder” in International
Applications of Music in Neurologic Rehabilitation,”
Journal of Arts Medicine, an outgrowth of their work in using
and announces plans to create an institute
music to help treat patients with a variety of disorders.
dedicated to exploring music and the brain.
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WE WILL CREATE AN ONLINE ACADEMY
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EVENTS MUSIC HAS POWER AWARDS THROUGHOUT THE YEARS The Music Has Power® Awards, founded in 2000, is the signature event presented by IMNF and symbolizes the visionary spirit of the Institute and its pioneering mission to combine science and music to promote healing and wellness.
2013 MHP Awards: Dominic Chianese, Connie Tomaino, Judy Collins and Edwin H. Stern, III. 2010 MHP Awards: Awardees, Shelley and Donald Rubin.
2019 Music Has Power Awards: Honorees Stanley Jordan; Nina Kraus; Jay Stark with Harry Ballan; Connie Tomaino; David J. Gentner, Ed.D., President and CEO of Wartburg.
2006 MHP Awards: Presenter, Dustin Hoffman.
2003 MHP Awards: Awardee, Mickey Hart from Grateful Dead.
1994
1994
1995
Beth Abraham music therapists, in collaboration with the
The NY State Department of
neuroscience division of the Albert Einstein College of
Health (NYSDOH) Dementia Grant
Medicine, and with funding from Wallerstein Foundation
Program funds Beth Abraham’s
IMNF IS INCORPORATED.
for Geriatric Life Improvement, begin investigating music
music therapy program to
and neurophysiology, verbal memory and recovery of
research the effects of music on
function in the auditory system.
memory in persons with dementia.
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IMNF IN MEDIA LOCAL TO GLOBAL IMNF is recognized internationally for expertise on music and brain health.
2018 – Neuropolis, a popular program in Chile, featured the work of IMNF on music and the brain.
2018 – Wartburg awards Renée Fleming with a proclamation for advocacy in music and health. Renée Fleming, David Gentner and Connie Tomaino.
The 2007 best-selling book by Dr. Sacks highlights the work of IMNF.
2011 – “NPR Science Fridays” with Ira Flatow, Oliver Sacks, Connie Tomaino and Andrew Rossetti.
2011 – The Music Never Stopped film based on the work of IMNF founders Oliver Sacks and Connie Tomaino.
Farinelli and the King is a 2015 Broadway play about music and healing. In researching the story, playwright Claire van Kampen became interested in recent scientific studies conducted by Dr. Concetta Tomaino.
2019 – BBC special recounts the collaboration of Drs. Sacks and Tomaino.
2018 – IMNF’s work with Veterans was featured on Korean television.
1998
2000
2001
Joint music therapy/
IMNF launches first
With funding from the Clay
occupational therapy
Music Has Power
Foundation, IMNF creates
program breaks new
Awards benefit in
music-based education module
ground by using MIDI
New York City.
for the Woree School in Korea.
technology to facilitate motor skill reacquisition.
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THE NEED
Statistics show that there is an ever-growing need of people who can benefit from the work of IMNF. Our goal is to address this need through our world-renowned education, training and research programs.
NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES IMPACT AN ESTIMATED
THERE ARE
5.8 MILLION
100 MILLION
PEOPLE LIVING WITH ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE IN THE U.S.
AMERICANS EVERY YEAR.*
THE COSTS OF DEMENTIA AND STROKE ALONE ARE PROJECTED TO TOTAL MORE THAN
IN THE 2014-2015 U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT’S BEST HOSPITALS RANKING,
8 OUT OF 10
$600 BILLION
TOP REHAB HOSPITALS HAD MUSIC THERAPY PROGRAMS.
BY 2030.*
THERE ARE
DEMAND FOR MUSIC THERAPISTS IS EXPECTED TO GO UP BY
8,000
3.52%
MUSIC THERAPISTS IN THE U.S., BUT THE NEED IS MUCH GREATER.
ANNUALLY.**
2002
2005
2008
2009
IMNF holds international symposium,
NYSDOH funds
IMNF begins New York
IMNF establishes
“Dialogues Across Disciplines:
IMNF to develop
Community Trust grant
a private practice
Cognitive Neuroscience and Music
Therapeutic
research on impact of music
to serve patients
Processing in Human Function,”
Drumming
therapy on depression and
beyond the nursing
bringing together neuroscientists
outreach and
apathy in conjunction with Beth
home, at home and
and clinicians for the first time.
training programs.
Abraham’s Comprehensive Care
in the community.
Management (CCM) programs.
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THE IMPACT IMNF
250,000
HAS TREATED OVER PATIENTS SINCE 1995.
SINCE 1980, IMNF HAS TRAINED OVER
250
MUSIC THERAPY INTERNS AND THOUSANDS OF HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS.
IMNF STAFF
100
HAS PUBLISHED OVER ARTICLES IN PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS, INCLUDING ANNALS OF THE NY ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, FRONTIERS, MUSIC AND MEDICINE, STROKE REHABILITATION, ETC.
*Clifton L. Gooch, Etienne Pracht, Amy R. Borenstein. “The Burden of Neurological Disease in the United States: A Summary Report and Call to Action.” Annals of Neurology, 2017; DOI: “http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ ana.24897” \t “_blank” **https://www.recruiter.com/careers/music-therapists/outlook/
JEREM Y’S STORY: FROM PATIEN T TO LEADER Po s t Trau m at ic St re s s D is orde r ( P TSD) is something that I will always live with after my traumatic experience landed me in rehabilitation as a double-arm amputee. It was in 2003 that I was first introduced to music therapy and, subsequently, to IMNF. Music therapy sessions with Benedikte Scheiby and David Ramsey helped me use music and song writing to access my feelings and put things into perspective. It was through IMNF that I was able to regain the strength and perspective I needed to go back into the community. After I was home and finished school, I grabbed the opportunity to volunteer in 2013 at IMNF in the Bronx, NY. Through this, my healing and experience came full-circle when I was able to mentor and model recovery for many others. I am grateful for the science of the power of music that I’ve learned at IMNF. For the past seven years, I have enjoyed up close and personal contact with patients, residents, and participants from the community and will continue to work and help in whatever way I can to strengthen and uplift others. With leadership from Dr. Tomaino, I know that my work exemplifies the words, “Music Has Power.”
– Jeremy Deliotte
2009
2010
IMNF builds significant community
IMNF partners with
and education outreach relationships
Music & Memory to
with: Weill Music Institute at Carnegie
revolutionize and
Hall, Aspen Musicians Peace
expand the use of
Project, the Shelley & Donald Rubin
personalized music
Foundation/Well-Tuned Program and
on iPods® for people
the SUNY Purchase College.
with dementia.
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COLLABORATORS TECHNOLOGY CONSULTING/COLLABORATIONS IMNF collaborates with various partners in tech, education and the arts to further our mission.
Biodex
Make Music Count
Orpheus Reflections
Spiritune
Jamboxx
Music & Memory
Point Motion
The ASCAP Foundation
Mainly Mozart
Music Theatre International (MTI)
Riffit
Wartburg
2011
2012
2015
IMNF-Northern
At the 2012 World Science Festival, IMNF
Dr. Tomaino
Westchester Hospital’s
co-founders Tomaino and Sacks speak
gives the keynote
music therapy program
to a sold-out audience in Reawakening
address in Spain
garners the 2011
the Brain Through Music. Tomaino
for Queen Sofia’s
Planetree Award for
explains the therapeutic process and
meeting on best
Integrative Therapies
the difference between music as a
practices in
for the hospital.
treatment and music therapy.
Alzheimer’s Disease.
March 2015
Co -Founder of IMNF
Dear Connie,
In his letter to Concetta Tomaino (executive director and co-founder of IMNF), Dr. Sacks describes some of the work undertaken by IMNF to improve patient lives and spread awareness about the potential of music therapy.
UCONN
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RESEARCH PARTNERS
LET TER FROM DR . OLIVER SACKS
You have been one of my closest friends and colleagues since you first arrived at Beth Abraham, and we have collaborated on many fronts, from the “Awakenings” patients to music therapy for dementia, Parkinson’s, aphasia (not to mention visiting ostriches and cycads in South Africa and going on long bike rides together). I could not have written Musicophilia without you, and your institute has spread the word and practice of music therapy far and wide, while keeping the most rigorous scientific standards. It has been a pleasure and an honor to work with you all these years. I congratulate you on your first 35 years at Beth Abe, and wish you many, many more!
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Love,
Oliver
2017
2018
2019
2020
Dr. Tomaino is invited
IMNF officially partners with Wartburg.
IMNF expands
IMNF is featured in
to speak at the
international student
new documentary
National Institutes
training and its
“Tuning the Brain
of Health (NIH) for an
collaborations with
with Music.”
inaugural information
new tech companies.
sharing meeting on music and the mind.
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“Our auditory systems, our nervous systems, are indeed exquisitely tuned for music…its complex sonic patterns woven in time... the mysterious way in which it embodies emotion and “will”—and how much to special resonances, synchronizations, oscillations, mutual excitations, or feedbacks in the immensely complex, multilevel neural circuitry that underlies musical perception and replay, we do not yet know.” – Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia
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