CIMTR Public Lecture: AMEND (Assessment of Music Experiences in Navigating Depression)

Join us online to hear from Joanne Loewy about the benefits of music participation for different populations facing depression and social/emotional well-being challenges.

This session will present the National Endowment for the Arts AMEND lab, reflecting the benefits of music participation in live, individual or web-based group intervention contexts that address depression and social/emotional well-being. Through identification and intervention protocols planned with Loewy's multidisciplinary team, AMEND's sources of research contexts offered opportunities to support wellness and resilience in targeted, at-risk populations.

This study addressed the potential of music therapy to strengthen well-being through assessing participants’ music background and responses to unique sounds provided through exposure to a range of musical instruments provided in a “Tour of the Room’ music therapy assessment context. It focused on music therapy in depression across populations, which included children, teens and college students, parent/s of neonates post-hospitalisation via Zoom, and older adults with mild cognitive impairment, all within a within a three-month period.

Speaker

Joanne Loewy DA, LCAT, MT-BC is the Director of the Department of Music Therapy, and a Professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and a Founding Member of the International Association for Music and Medicine.

The Department of Music Therapy, which she initiated in 1994, is federally funded by NIH and NEA, and among many populations is serving musicians and their unique ailments, including chronic fatigue, chemical dependency, performance anxiety and overuse, children with developmental delays, teens with emotional issues, adults with neurological disorders, and all ages of patients with asthma and COPD.

She received her doctorate from NYU and has edited several books, including Music Therapy in Pediatric Pain and Music Therapy in the NICU, and co-edited the titles Music Therapy at End of Life, Caring for the Caregiver: Music Therapy in Grief and Trauma, Integrative Advances in Music, and Medicine: Music, the Breath and Health.

This event is part of the CIMTR Public Lecture Series 2025-26.