Music, Science & Medicine: Frontiers in Biomedical Research & Clinical Applicatio

描述（由申请人提供）：纽约科学院（NYAS）正在举办一个具有里程碑意义的科学项目，音乐，科学与医学：生物医学研究与临床应用的前沿（www.nyas.org/musicscience），探索人体生理学与音乐治疗之间的联系。主要目标是促进疾病生理学基础研究和音乐治疗师之间的跨学科和明确的对话。多学科组织委员会（见会议计划）的两名成员Paula Tallal博士，罗格斯大学董事会神经科学教授和分子与行为神经科学中心联合主任，以及Norwalk音乐治疗诊所主任，mit - bc的Dori Berger，是这项资助的主要研究者。该活动是第一个不仅关注神经认知机制，而且关注其他生理过程的活动，将包括一个为期一天的会议，将于2011年3月25日在纽约市举行，并制作一个高质量的电子持久材料，称为eBriefing，为更广泛的公众提供用户友好的访问这些信息。参与者将概述为什么以及如何利用音乐元素作为一种医学干预来改变病理生理反应（会议一和主讲人），并在特定儿童和成人诊断的背景下参与基础研究和临床音乐之间的明确对话，其中生理和音乐治疗之间的联系已被证明（会议二和会议三）。因此，会议议程将由一名研究人员和一名音乐治疗师组成，他们将对痴呆症、自闭症、语言习得问题、疼痛或昏迷的生理学或音乐治疗进行结果和循证演讲。提交的关于其他科学研究和临床音乐工作的摘要（通过视频和海报）将进一步扩大会议的范围并扩展其他相关诊断。将提供交流休息时间，包括在展示海报和录像的同时举行晚间鸡尾酒招待会，并提供旅行研究金，鼓励少数民族和年轻调查人员参加。午餐期间，将有两个平行的研讨会，讨论临床音乐治疗技术如何帮助感官，认知和情感缺陷的重组。目标受众包括多学科参与者（200多名与会者），例如对主体医学感兴趣的补充和替代医学社区成员，音乐治疗师，生理学家，精神病学家，语言病理学家，社会工作者，老年病学家，神经学家，神经科学家和普通公众等。我们期待这次研讨会的讨论和传播将促进旨在整合疾病生理学、音乐生理学和音乐治疗的合作，并将科学发现更好地转化为基于音乐的疾病临床治疗。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) is hosting a landmark scientific program, Music, Science & Medicine: Frontiers in Biomedical Research & Clinical Applications (www.nyas.org/musicscience), to explore the connection between physiology of the human body and music therapy. The main goal is fostering cross-disciplinary and explicit dialogue among basic researches studying physiology of disease and music therapists. Two of the members of a multidisciplinary organizing committee (see CONFERENCE PLAN), Paula Tallal, PhD, Board of Governor's Professor of Neuroscience and Co-Director of the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers University, and Dori Berger, MT-BC, Director of The Music Therapy Clinic, Norwalk, are the Principal Investigators for this grant. The activity, one of the first focused not only on neurocognitive mechanisms, but also on other physiological processes, will include a one-day conference, to be held March 25, 2011 in New York City, and the production of a high-quality electronic enduring material, called eBriefing, to provide user-friendly access to this information to a wider public. Participants will overview why and how music elements can be utilized as a medical intervention to modify pathophysiological responses (Session I and keynote speaker) and participate in an explicit dialogue between basic research and clinical music in the context of specific children and adult diagnoses where a link between physiology and music treatment has been proven (Sessions II and III). The agenda will thus feature speaker pairs formed by one researcher and one music therapist who will deliver result- and evidence-based presentations on the physiology or music treatment of dementia, autism, language acquisition problems, pain, or coma. Submitted abstracts addressing additional science research and clinical music work (through videos and posters) will further widen the scope of the conference and expand on other relevant diagnoses. Networking breaks will be available, including an evening cocktail reception concurrent with the poster and video display session, and travel fellowships be offered to encourage participation from minority and young investigators. During lunch, there will be two parallel workshops addressing how clinical music therapy techniques aid the reorganization of sensory, cognitive, and emotional deficits. Target audience includes multidisciplinary participation (200+ attendees) such as members of the complementary and alternative medicine community interested in main-body medicine, music therapists, physiologists, psychiatrists, speech pathologists, social workers, geriatricians, neurologists, neuroscientists, and lay public, among others. We expect that the discussions originating from this symposium and their dissemination will promote collaborations aimed at integrating disease physiology, music physiology, and music therapy, and an improved translation of scientific discoveries into music-based clinical treatments of disease. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Our one-day conference is designed to foster cross-disciplinary and explicit dialogue among basic researches studying physiological function and music therapists, focusing not only on neurocognitive mechanisms but also on other processes such as hormonal and metabolic responses, pain control, and motor functions. The program overviews the clinical application of music, and features several pairs of speakers composed by a researcher and a music therapist who will address areas of children or adult disease where an explicit link between physiology and music treatment has been proven (autism, stress, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease, coma, and pain). Submitted abstracts covering additional science research and music therapy clinical work (through videos and posters) will further expand on the subject of populations and diagnoses served and researched. The discussions among participants, their dissemination through a web-based enduring piece, and new collaborations generated at the meeting will encourage a more effective communication and translation of current scientific knowledge into music-based clinical treatments, ultimately benefiting patients with devastating disorders.