Thanks to my big brother, MTRB is back online!!! Last summer I talked about prepping for natural disaster. Getting hacked gives me a chance to remind you all to stay up to date with wordpress and plugins, back up frequently, and stay calm should someone use their spare time for malicious intent. Just think what this world could do if the time people spent hacking little websites like mine was spent doing something good for the world.  Continue reading →

Admittedly, I have been less than frequent with my posts in 2012. That doesn’t mean there weren’t interesting studies published; rather, I was busy with our unexpected move prompted by mother nature. I’ll try to make up for it with some recent articles focused on pre-treatment anxiety.  Continue reading →

It has been almost three months since our world changed. We can almost mark the time in numbers: 1700+ items submitted to insurance, 68 pages detailing our old home, 7 days to remove debris from the lot, 82 thank you cards sent…. Continue reading →

“We lost your home”. Those are the words I heard Sunday night as I held the hand of my husband on one side and my neighbor on the other. Fifty-seven families from my neighborhood received that same news from the local fire chief, who was fighting back tears. Continue reading →

Another month of reading research goes by quickly! In this post you will find a blast of recently-release research related to music and therapy. Continue reading →

You might have been wondering about the dearth of posts as of late. With my full time job, conference schedule and grant writing – the blog has been on the “back burner”. However, I continue to read research daily. Here is a blast of things that I think are interesting. Continue reading →

Many music therapists who work with persons with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) use music for gait training and volitional movement training. A new meta-analysis was completed on music-facilitated movement in PD. Continue reading →

Part 2 of our three part series on reading and writing scholarly research in music therapy. We discuss our own reactions to stats as undergraduates, tips for increasing your stats reading IQ in journal articles, and summarize a few of the more common statistical analyses. Blythe reminds us that correlation does NOT equal causation: So sayeth Dilbert.

MTRB issues this podcast, the first in a three part series on you, the listener, as researcher. This episode is a guide through the parts of a scholarly paper, whether you want to be a better consumer of research, are a student writing your first scholarly papers, or ready to dive in to the world of publication.

Parts two and three coming soon are “The Results Section or Remember Stats Class?” and “The Qualitative Side of Things,” respectively.

We recommend two texts: “The Practitioners Guide to Using Research for Evidence-Based Practice” by Rubin and How To Write A Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing by Silvia.

And this little number should help, too: How to Publish in Scholarly Journals

Music has often been used during painful medical procedures. A new study looked at the use of music during joint lavage to see if it would effect anxiety and pain. Continue reading →