Recent Publications

 

Anxiety

♦ The Impact of Music Therapy on Anxiety in Cancer Patients Undergoing Simulation for Radiation Therapy
Andrew Rossetti, Manjeet Chadha, B Nelson Torres, Jae K Lee, Donald Hylton, Joanne V Loewy, Louis B Harrison
International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physic 99(1) 103-110, 2017

Cancer

♦ The Effects of Clinical Music Therapy on Resiliency in Adults Undergoing Infusion: A Randomized, Controlled Trial
John F Mondanaro, Gabriel A Sara, Roshni Thachil, Marija Pranjic, Andrew Rossetti, Grace EunHye Sim, Bernardo Canga, Ilene Brodoff Harrison, Joanne Loewy
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 61(6) 1099-1108, 2021

Culture

Level Up: Gaming to a Beat. A Virtual Program Putting Video Game Culture at the Forefront
Christopher Pizzute
Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy, 23(2).

Environmental Music Therapy (EMT)

♦ Effects of Live Music on the Perception of Noise in the SICU/PICU: A Patient, Caregiver, and Medical Staff Environmental Study
Andrew Rossetti, Joanne Loewy, Wen Chang-Lit, Nienke H. van Dokkum, Erik Baumann, Gabrielle Bouissou, John Mondanaro, Todd O’Connor, Gabriela Asch-Ortiz, and Hayato Mitaka
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20(4), 3499, 2023

The Effects of environmental music therapy on anxiety and waiting in radiation oncology
Andrew Rossetti, Joanne Loewy, Zach Fischer, Saarang Deshpande, Manjeet Chadha
Music and Medicine 15(1), 2023

♦ Environmental music therapy (EMT): Music’s contribution to changing hospital atmospheres and perceptions of environments
Andrew Rossetti
Music and Medicine 12(2), 2020

♦ Environmental Music in a Hospital Setting: Considerations of Music Therapists and Performing Musicians
Jing wen Zhang, Mary A Doherty, John Francis Mahoney
Music and Medicine 10(2), 2018

Pain

♦ Underlying Music Mechanisms Influencing the Neurology of Pain: An Integrative Model
Joanne Loewy
Brain Sciences 12(10) 1317, 2022

♦ Music Therapy Increases Comfort and Reduces Pain in Patients Recovering From Spine Surgery
John F. Mondanaro, Peter Homel, Baron Lonner, Jennifer Shepp, Marcela Lichtensztejn, andJoanne V. Loewy,
The American Journal of Orthopedics 46(1), E13-E22, 2017

Respiratory

♦ Music therapy in pediatric asthma improves pulmonary function while reducing hospitalizations
Joanne Loewy, Cody Goldsmith, Sarrang Desphande, Alec Sun, Jennifer Harris, Cindy Van Es, Zvi Ben-Zi, Stephen Dahmer
The Journal of Asthma 58(5) 674-682, 2021

♦ AIR: Advances in Respiration – Music therapy in the treatment of chronic pulmonary disease
Bernardo Canga, Ronit Azoulay, Jonathan Raskin, Joanne Loewy
Respiratory Medicine 109(12) 1532-1539, 2015

Sleep

 Music Therapy as a Potential Intervention for Sleep Improvement
Joanne Loewy
Nature and Science of Sleep 12 1-9, 2020

Trauma-Informed Care

♦ “I Hear You”: The Potency of Play in Music Psychotherapy for Treating Trauma in Musicians
Joanne Loewy
In Trauma-Informed Music Therapy: Theory and Practice, 1st ed.; Beer, L.E., Birnbaum, J.C., Eds.; Routledge: New York, NY, USA, 2022; pp. 131–141

♦  Assessing & treating trauma: Music psychotherapy for parents of neonates
Joanne V. Loewy, Andrew Rossetti, Aimee Telsey, Ann Marie Dassler
Music and Medicine 13(2) 2021