News
3/1/2024 Borna Bonakdarpour delivered a grand rounds lecture at the University of Arizona for the Department of Neurology titled Melodic Remedies: Music-based interventions for Neurologic disorders.
1/19/2024 NMMP presented their research to the Chicago Children's Advocacy Center. The two-and-a-half-hour long presentation, demonstration, and discussion explored ways that clinical music could be integrated into therapy targeting child abuse.
12/23/2023 Borna Bonakdarpour spoke about the Musical Bridges to Memory study and potential future implications. Published in 2022, the “Musical Bridges to Memory” intervention, a collaboration between Northwestern Medicine and the Institute for Therapy through the Arts, revealed the power of music in connecting with individuals suffering from dementia, particularly in the later stages.
10/31/2023 Announcing the launch of NMMP (Northwestern Music and Medicine Program) Mobile App for both Apple and Android devices. The App has a very simple interface to obtain updates on our programs and news. To download press either of the buttons bellow.
10/23/2023 First participant in the CIMAC study starts the intervention with the pre-CDIM MRI.
Jordan Behn, Project Engineer and Senior Investigator
10/4/2023 The tDCS team starts enrolling participants with the diagnosis of Aphasic Dementia for trial of 4 week intervention for treamtent of anomia and impaired sentence production.
9/1/2023 Our paper on the effect of calming improvisatory music in individuals in admitted in the epilepsy monitoring unit was published. Click on the left picture for the article and on the right picture for the press release feature and listen to a sample music.
7/18/23 and 7/19/23 Mesulam Center had a strong presence at the Alzheier's Association International Conference in Amsterdam: We shared results from many projects related to Primary Progressive Aphasia (featured in Dr. Marsel Mesulam's Plenary speech , Good Memory Choir (poster), and Alzheimer's biomarkers and their relevance for neuropsychiatric symptoms.
5/18/23: Northwestern Music and Medicine Program presented at the
Northwestern IPHAM/Osher Seminar Series
5/11/23: LINC and NMMP present at the Annual Alzheimer's Day
Laboratory for Interventions and Neuroimaging of Cognition (LINC) and Northwestern Music and Medicine Program presented 9 abstracts and exhibited the NMMP activities at the Annual AD Day at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Abstracts can be viewed below:
AD Day 2023- Abstract Book.pdf
4/24 and 4/25/23: Updates from American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting in Boston
Borna Bonakdarpour and Clara Takarabe presented Northwestern Music and Medicine and NM Well-being project results at the Practice, Policy, and Ethics session.
With Drs. Kate Carroll and Stephen VanHaerents at the tranees meet and greet.
Invited talk on Music and Neurology