Project Lead: Lucia Gassner
Authors: Lucia Gassner, Julia Mayer-Ferbas
Publication: November 2020
Language: English (with German summary)
Music therapy is an expression promoting, scientific-artistic-creative and independent form of treatment and aims at maintaining, restoring, and furthering physical, emotional, and mental health. This systematic review assessed the effectiveness of music therapy for the treatment of autism spectrum disorder, dementia, depression, insomnia, and schizophrenia. In addition, music therapeutic methods used for these indications are analysed.