IMNF Case Statement

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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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