Lane ends by addressing hospital administrators directly, stating, “you may just hire a music therapist for the benefit of your patients.” This brings applause from the audience.ĪMTA is honored to have Deforia Lane as an outstanding spokesperson for music therapy and music therapists, combining the art and science of our amazing profession. Lane asks the audience a compelling question, “What will you do?” Her answer is one every music therapist should hear: urging parents and caregivers of persons on the autism spectrum and persons with Alzheimer’s disease or traumatic brain injuries to seek out music therapy treatment. Wonderful examples of clients' positive responses to music therapy are presented in this TEDx talk, including music's effects on an unborn child and how therapeutic singing helps a man after a stroke to speak again. /rebates/2f97803104321042fMusic-Medicine-Deforia-Lanes-Life-03104321032fplp&. Coalitions & Partnerships - for membersĪp12:22 PM Deforia Lane, PhD, MT-BC delivers a spell-binding and emotional TEDx talk about the power of music therapy entitled Music Therapy & Medicine: A Dynamic Partnership.For example, endorphins, enkephalins and serotonin, adds Deforia Lane, PhD, Director of Art and Music Therapy at University Hospital’s Seidman Cancer Center. Arthur Flagler Fultz Research Award from AMTA Deforia Lane, Ph.D., Director of Art and Music Therapy at UH Seidman Cancer Center and one of the co-authors of the study, said We know that music touches parts of our brain: The emotional. We know music touches various parts of our brain, including the emotional center that releases our body’s natural opiates.

Scholarship Opportunities for AMTA Members Deforia Lane, Ph.D., MT-BC served as Director of Art & Music Therapy for the University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, and is the author of Music as Medicine.

Education and Clinical Training Information Music as Medicine: Deforia Lanes Life of Music, Healing, and Faith 228.

Music as Medicine by Deforia Lane