Healing Arts Speaker Series: Ed Roth

March 19, 2015 | 7 p.m. | Dalton Center Recital Hall, Western Michigan University

“Reciprocal Relationships among the Arts, Science, and Medicine: The Neuroscience of Music in Health and Healing”

Ed Roth, associate professor of music at Western Michigan University, has published and presented widely on the topic of music therapy as treatment for trauma and anxiety disorders and the effects of music on motor functioning.

Art, science and medicine have been intimately linked across centuries. More recently, the application of neuroscience research to music has created an entire paradigm shift in clinical music therapy. 

In this talk, Roth will describe interdisciplinary collaborative research conducted in the laboratory for Brain Research and Interdisciplinary Neurosciences at Western Michigan University. He will discuss collaborative music therapy projects with Johns Hopkins Medicine as well as local projects in Kalamazoo. The primary aims of this research are to understand the neural substrates of creative behavior and the application of that knowledge to the delivery of clinical neurologic music therapy services.