Neurocognitive Music Therapy: Intersecting Music, Medicine and Technology for Health and Well-Being

Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
	1.1 Music for Health and Well-Being
	1.2 Music Therapy
	1.3 From Notes to Neurons
	1.4 Chapter Summary
	References
Chapter 2: Accessible Digital Music Instruments for Motor Disability
	2.1 Motor Disabilities
	2.2 Music Playing Benefits
	2.3 Accessible Digital Music Interfaces
	2.4 Gaze-Based Digital Music Interfaces
	2.5 The EyeHarp
		2.5.1 The Step Sequencer Layer
		2.5.2 The Melody Layer
		2.5.3 The EyeHarp as a Music Instrument
	2.6 The EyeHarp as a Therapeutic Tool for Motor Disabilities
		2.6.1 Implications
	2.7 Protocol: Music-Based Intervention for People with Motor Disabilities
		2.7.1 Objective
		2.7.2 Participants
		2.7.3 Phases
	2.8 Chapter Summary
	References
Chapter 3: Music as a Tool for Improving Emotion Identification in Autistic Children
	3.1 Autism, Emotions, and Music
	3.2 Research: Music-Enhanced Emotion Identification of Facial Emotions in ASD Children
		3.2.1 Participants
		3.2.2 Materials
		3.2.3 Methods
		3.2.4 Results
		3.2.5 Discussion
	3.3 Protocol for a Music-Based Intervention for Improving Emotion Recognition in Children with ASD (IER-ASD)
	3.4 Chapter Summary
	References
Chapter 4: Music and Stroke Rehabilitation
	4.1 Stroke
	4.2 Music and Stroke Rehabilitation
	4.3 Research: Music and Motion Sensing for Stroke Rehabilitation
		4.3.1 Participants
		4.3.2 Materials
		4.3.3 Methods
		4.3.4 Results
		4.3.5 Discussion
	4.4 Protocol: Music-Based Intervention for Stroke Rehabilitation
	4.5 Chapter Summary
	References
Chapter 5: Musical Neurofeedback for Emotional Disorders
	5.1 Depressive Disorder
	5.2 Elderly People, Music, Emotions and Neurofeedback
	5.3 Research: Musical Neurofeedback for Depression Treatment in Elderly People
		5.3.1 Brain Activity Acquisition
		5.3.2 Emotion State Estimation from EEG Data
		5.3.3 Musical Neurofeedback
		5.3.4 Musical Neurofeedback and Depression: A Pilot Study
		5.3.5 Results
		5.3.6 Discussion
	5.4 Protocol: Musical Neurofeedback for Depression Treatment
	5.5 Chapter Summary
	References
Chapter 6: Emotions and Music in Palliative Care
	6.1 Palliative Care
	6.2 Music and Palliative Care
	6.3 Research: Emotions and Music Therapy in Palliative Care – An EEG Study
		6.3.1 Participants
		6.3.2 Materials
		6.3.3 Methods
		6.3.4 Results
	6.4 Protocol: Music Therapy Intervention for Palliative Care Patients
	6.5 Chapter Summary
	References
Chapter 7: Personalizing Music Interventions
	7.1 Personalized Music Interventions
	7.2 What Is Artificial Intelligence?
	7.3 Analysing Music-Based Interventions in Palliative Care with Machine Learning
	7.4 Chapter Summary
	References
Index