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Feb 16, 2012 | Dr. Concetta M. Tomaino Featured on VoiceBox Program on Neuroscience and Singing

Dr. Concetta Tomaino, executive director of the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function, took to the radio waves to discuss the profound connection between minds and voices. She was a guest on VoiceBox, a weekly public radio and podcast series all about the human voice. The program airs...

Feb 13, 2012 | Musical Connections Program Lauded in The New York Times

Seven Beth Abraham Health Services patients got the chance to help create new musical works and then perform them in the spotlight as part of a special collaboration with professional musicians at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute. As part of a collaboration with the Institute for...

Nov 29, 2011 | Music Therapy and IMNF Get National Spotlight in USA Today

Dr. Concetta Tomaino, IMNF Executive Director/Co-Founder, and former IMNF patient Carey Gordon were featured in a November 29, 2011 article about music therapy in USA Today. The story, “Music Therapy Can Help Retrain a Brain,” talks about how music is being used across the nation to...

Aug 19, 2011 | Michael Feinstein and Friends Celebrate Music’s Power to Heal at a Benefit for the IMNF

Multi-platinum-selling, five-time Grammy-nominated entertainer Michael Feinstein will host and headline a celebration of music’s therapeutic power to heal when the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function’s Music Has Power™ Awards return to Feinstein’s at Loews Regency – The...

Aug 2, 2011 | CCLC Honors IMNF Executive Director Dr. Connie Tomaino with First Ever Burton Grebin Award

Citing her pioneering role in advancing the scope of long-term care through music therapy, the Continuing Care Leadership Coalition (CCLC) presented Dr. Concetta M. Tomaino with its first annual Burton Grebin, MD Award for Innovation. As Executive Director and co-founder of the...

Mar 4, 2011 | NY Premiere of “The Music Never Stopped” To Benefit IMNF

Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart with Dr. Oliver Sacks and Cara Seymour Expected at 92nd Street Y Event on March 16th

BRONX, NY, March 4, 2011 – The New York premiere of Jim Kohlberg’s acclaimed new film, “The Music Never Stopped,” takes place on March 16th at the 92nd Street Y’s...

Feb 10, 2012 | Carnegie Hall Program Spotlights Patients

Seven patients at Beth Abraham Health Services' nursing home in the Bronx recently got the chance to help create new musical works and then perform them in the spotlight as part of a special collaboration with professional musicians at Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute. The musicians...

Jan 17, 2012 | Mickey Hart Shares IMNF With His Fans

Former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart highlighted the work of the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function (IMNF) at a January 8 concert at the Highline Ballroom in New York City. IMNF Executive Director Dr. Concetta Tomaino and Marlon Sobol, Manager of the IMNF at Schnurmacher...

Dec 28, 2011 | IMNF Music Therapist Marlon Sobol Demonstrates Clinical Application of CD at the AMTA Conference

Music therapist Marlon Sobol gave a demonstration on the clinical application of the Keep on Moving -- Music for Therapeutic Rhythmic Activities CD at the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA) conference in Atlanta last month. The CD, which uses familiar music to enhance overall health...