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CELEBRATING 25 YEARS IMNF VISION2025 IMNF VISION 2025 | 2 LEADING THE WAY IN: • Educating the public on emerging music and neuroscience research as it relates to health and development. • Promoting dialogues across disciplines of neuroscience, medicine, psychology and music therapy. • Advancing best practices in music therapy through education and training. • Consulting with technology companies to extend music-based interventions. • Advocating for access to music therapy services. ABOUT VALUES The Institute for Music and Neurologic Function (IMNF) IMNF believes: is an internationally recognized non-profit agency • Music affects the whole person: body, mind and spirit. engaging in research, education and training and offering groundbreaking music therapy programs to restore, • Music is integral to human development and has the maintain and improve patients’ physical, emotional and power to awaken, stimulate and heal. neurological function through the methodical use of music. • Everyone can benefit from music, and those MISSION with neurologic challenges should have access to music therapy. Through the scientific exploration of music and the brain, IMNF seeks to establish new knowledge and to develop more • Collaboration with scientists, educators, government effective music therapy treatments to awaken, stimulate and policy makers, music therapists, technology companies heal through the extraordinary power of music. and healthcare entities advances our mission. VISION • Technology accelerates the delivery of the therapeutic aspects of music to benefit those who have limited access As an international model, IMNF will integrate emergent to music therapy. neuroscience to advance clinical music therapy practice. • In the highest level of ethical standards and integrity and applying it to all research, education and clinical practice. 3 | IMNF VISION 2025 IMNF VISION 2025 Dear Friend of IMNF: Can music change the brain? music perception has grown tremendously over these years, Promote health? We are at an exciting and now we know that music does have positive effects on so crossroad. IMNF was established many aspects of brain development and health. For this reason – in 1995 to bridge the fields of and with your support – we want to bring our knowledge and neuroscience and music therapy and expertise to impact healthy aging – from brain development in to increase dialogues across these young children to prevention of falls in seniors. disciplines to promote the efficacy of music-based interventions for those with a wide array of We believe that creative, nonverbal expression can help build neurologic challenges. emotional resilience and executive function in young children with language delays and behavioral issues. We know that In the early 1980s, working alongside co-founder and renowned active music engagement can help seniors maintain short-term author Dr. Oliver Sacks, I knew that music was providing memory function and improve balance and general mobility. structure and arousal to allow improved function in our We also know that music therapy can have an enormous impact patients – but why? In our search for answers and through on those with brain injuries by helping restore function and the help of generous donors, IMNF sponsored basic music improve quality of life. We will expand our research partnerships perception studies and international symposia and began to to advance these efforts and share our knowledge through best identify clinical protocols for music therapy applications in practice trainings. Thank you for sharing this journey with us stroke and dementia care. and for helping us help others through the Power of Music. In our first 25 years, we have trained over 250 music therapists, Concetta M. Tomaino, DA, LCAT, MT-BC presented at close to 1,000 conferences and have reached Executive Director, Co-founder millions through media coverage. The field of neuroscience and IMNF VISION 2025 | 4 STRATEGIC INITIATIVES CLINICAL MUSIC THERAPY The IMNF Music Therapy Professionals Practice enables us to provide our renowned music therapy programs in the NY metropolitan area (on campus, in homes and at clinic sites). With advances in technology, we also have the capacity for international consultations. Our goal is to apply our expertise in music therapy to benefit people of all ages, including children with developmental needs. IMNF will also be developing group wellness programs that will be open to members of the community who want to maintain their health and wellness. Intensive Treatment Programs Community Support Programs Neurologic conditions: • Parkinson’s disease • Parkinson’s disease and movement disorders • Veterans with post-traumatic • Dementia stress disorder (PTSD) • Stroke • Aphasia • Developmental delays ONE OF OUR GOALS IS TO BRING MUSIC THERAPY BEST PRACTICES TO WEB-BASED TECHNOLOGIES TO MEET THE GROWING NEED. HISTORY The Institute developed out of the many years of clinical work and research of renowned author and neurologist Oliver Sacks, MD, and music therapist Concetta M. Tomaino, DA, MT-BC, who demonstrated that people with neurological problems could learn to move better, remember more and even regain speech when music was used in specific ways. In 1995, under the leadership of Edwin H. Stern III, Arnold H. Goldstein and the late Ben Rizzi, the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function was founded to pursue this passion and this mission – to bring together the two worlds of basic neuroscience and clinical music therapy. 5 | IMNF VISION 2025 WE WILL CREATE AN ONLINE ACADEMY TO ADVANCE EVIDENCE-BASED MUSIC THERAPY PRACTICE. EDUCATION IMNF offers a series of workshops to help music therapists, scientists and other healthcare professionals to expand their expertise. In addition, IMNF recognizes the future of music therapy by providing internships to music therapy students, providing clinical training for international music therapy students and accrediting organizations and best practices. IMNF has trained hundreds of medical rehabilitation professionals globally to use clinical protocols developed by IMNF. RESEARCH Clinical protocols include using music to: enhance gait in people with IMNF is committed to collaborations with basic science, cognitive Parkinson’s; improve speech in people with aphasia and memory in neuroscience and social sciences to advance evidence-based clinical people with cognitive impairment. music therapy practice. IMNF assists other organizations on their research projects as needed and seeks funding to support our work. Areas of Current Research • Aphasia • Dementia and cognition “I look forward to following the groundbreaking work of IMNF as it continues the scientific exploration of the power of music therapy to awaken, stimulate and heal the brain” - Renée Fleming 1991 1993 Oliver Sacks and Concetta (Connie) Tomaino, a physician and Beth Abraham Health Services hosts its first a music therapist who work at Beth Abraham in the Bronx, international music therapy conference, “Clinical NY, publish “Music and Neurological Disorder” in International Applications of Music in Neurologic Rehabilitation,” Journal of Arts Medicine, an outgrowth of their work in using and announces plans to create an institute music to help treat patients with a variety of disorders. dedicated to exploring music and the brain. IMNF VISION 2025 | 6 EVENTS MUSIC HAS POWER AWARDS THROUGHOUT THE YEARS The Music Has Power® Awards, founded in 2000, is the signature event presented by IMNF and symbolizes the visionary spirit of the Institute and its pioneering mission to combine science and music to promote healing and wellness. 2013 MHP Awards: Dominic Chianese, Connie Tomaino, Judy Collins and Edwin H. Stern, III. 2010 MHP Awards: Awardees, Shelley and Donald Rubin. 2019 Music Has Power Awards: Honorees Stanley Jordan; Nina Kraus; Jay Stark with Harry Ballan; Connie Tomaino; 2006 MHP Awards: Presenter, Dustin Hoffman. 2003 MHP Awards: Awardee, David J. Gentner, Ed.D., President and CEO of Wartburg. Mickey Hart from Grateful Dead. 1994 1994 1995 Beth Abraham music therapists, in collaboration with the The NY State Department of IMNF IS neuroscience division of the Albert Einstein College of Health (NYSDOH) Dementia Grant Medicine, and with funding from Wallerstein Foundation Program funds Beth Abraham’s INCORPORATED. for Geriatric Life Improvement, begin investigating music music therapy program to and neurophysiology, verbal memory and recovery of research the effects of music on function in the auditory system. memory in persons with dementia. 7 | IMNF VISION 2025 IMNF IN MEDIA LOCAL TO GLOBAL IMNF is recognized internationally for expertise 2018 – Wartburg 2018 – Neuropolis, a popular on music and brain health. awards Renée Fleming program in Chile, featured the work with a proclamation for of IMNF on music and the brain. advocacy in music and 2011 – The Music health. Renée Fleming, Never Stopped film The 2007 David Gentner and based on the work best-selling book Connie Tomaino. by Dr. Sacks of IMNF founders highlights the Oliver Sacks and Farinelli and the King is a 2015 work of IMNF. Connie Tomaino. Broadway play about music and healing. In researching the story, playwright Claire van Kampen became 2011 – “NPR Science interested in recent scientific studies Fridays” with Ira conducted by Dr. Concetta Tomaino. Flatow, Oliver Sacks, 2019 – BBC special Connie Tomaino and 2018 – IMNF’s recounts the Andrew Rossetti. work with collaboration of Drs. Veterans was Sacks and Tomaino. featured on Korean television.