Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Community Interactions: Social and Cultural Aspects of Music Therapy Open Encounters
Rosemyriam Cunha (Department of Music Therapy, University of the State of Paraná – Campus II, Curitiba, Brazil)

Chapter 2. Music Therapy in Neonatal Care Units: Physiological Responses in Premature Newborns
Leila Simone Foerster Merey, PhD, Mara Lisiane de Moraes dos Santos, PhD and Daniele de Almeida Soares-Marangoni, PhD (Institute of Health, Physical Therapy Section, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brazil)

Chapter 3. Music Therapy: The Real Alternative for Anxiety Management in Child and Adolescent with Cancer?
Cabral-Gallo María del Consuelo and Delgadillo-Hernández Alma Olga (Institute for Research on Cancer in Childhood and Adolescence, Department of Human Reproduction and Child Growth, University Center for Health Sciences, University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Chapter 4. Acute Effects of Musical Auditory Stimulation on Heart Rate Dynamics
Joice Anaize Tonon do Amaral, David M. Garner, Luiz Carlos de Abreu and Vitor Engrácia Valenti (Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil, and others)

Chapter 5. Music Therapy in the Rehabilitation of a Cerebral Vascular Accident
Patricia Dominguez Rufaco, Juan Rodríguez Mansilla, Manuel Sequera Martin, María Jiménez Palomares, Elisa María Garrido Ardila, Silvia Torres Piles and Jorge Guerrero Martín (Department of Medical-Surgical Therapy, Extremadura University, Badajoz, Spain, and others)

Chapter 6. Bringing Timbre and Ecological Listening into Music Therapy Practices
Pietro Polotti, PhD (Department of New Languages, Tartini Conservatory, Trieste, Italy)

Index