Each year, Kadlec Neurological Resource Center brings in leading authorities on brain health. This year, Dr. Concetta Tomaino will be speaking. About the presenter: Concetta Tomaino, DA, MT-BC, LCAT. Dr. Concetta Tomaino is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function and Senior Vice President for Music Therapy at Beth Abraham Family of Health Services, where she has worked since 1980. Dr. Tomaino is internationally known for her research in the clinical applications of music and neurologic rehabilitation. She has lectured on music therapy throughout the United States and in, Argentina, Australia, South Africa, Italy, England, and Canada. Her work has been featured in national programs including 48 Hours and 60 Minutes; in international programs including the BBC; and in books on health and healing, including A Matter of Dignity, by Andrew Potok; The Mozart Effect, by Don Campbell; Age Protectors (Rodale Press); Sounds of Healing, by Mitchell Gaynor, M.D; and An Anthropologist on Mars, by Oliver Sacks, M.D. Dr. Sack's book Musicophilia is dedicated to her. Dr. Tomaino recently discussed "The Positive Effects of Music Therapy on Health" in a program cosponsored by the Music Division and the Science, Technology and Business Division of the Library of Congress. Dr. Tomaino's research is focused on finding the most efficacious uses of music-brain treatments that can potentially benefit those living with the effects of autism, dementia, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, stroke or trauma.

 

Her present research is attempting to answer these questions:

* What music therapy interventions are best used for the remediation and rehabilitation of language and other cognitive functions such as memory?
* What music therapy interventions are best used for the remediation and rehabilitation of motor function?
* Can the use of low frequency sound help mitigate functional impairments caused by spasticity and/or pain?

CEUs

The "Music and the Brain" conference is approved for a total of up to 0.5 CEUs.

To register for CEUs for the "Music and the Brain" conference download the Session Attendance Report Form, complete the form, and save the file using this file name model:

2010-Music-Kadlec-Lastname-Firstname.xls.

Then send the file as an email attachment to ceus@aacinstitute.org. This is a spreadsheet file (.xls). If any difficulty is encountered in using this form, write to ceus@aacinstitute.org to request an alternative file format.

 

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