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Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT) is a music therapy model based on neuroscience, the scientific study of the nervous system. NMT is a therapeutic application of music to cognitive, sensory, and motor dysfunctions due to neurologic disease of the human nervous system. The population served by NMT include: stroke, traumatic brain injury, Parkinson's and Huntington's disease, cerebral palsy, Alzheimer's disease, autism, and other neurological disease affecting cognitive, movement, and communication (e.g., MS, Muscular Dystrophy, etc). NMT is research-based and its treatment techniques are based on the scientific knowledge in music perception and production and the effects thereof on nonmusical brain and behavior functions .

Clinical Techniques
Neurologic music therapy uses a research-based system of standardized clinical techniques used for sensorimotor training, speech and language training, and cognition training. NMT techniques include


 * Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation (RAS): Facilitates rehabilitation of movements that are intrinsically biologically rhythmical.


 * Patterned Sensory Enhancement (PSE): Uses rhythmic, melodic, harmonic and dynamic aspects of music to provide temporal, spatial and force cues for movement.


 * Therapeutic Instrumental Music Playing (TIMP): Uses playing musical instruments to exercise and stimulate functional movement patterns.


 * Speech Stimulation: Uses musical and song patterns to stimulate non-propositional speech.


 * Melodic Intonation Therapy (MIT): A technique for aphasia rehabilitation, it utilizes client's unimpaired ability to sing to facilitate spontaneous and voluntary speech.


 * Rhythmic Speech Cueing (RSC): Uses rhythmic cueing to control the initiation and rate of speech through cueing and pacing.


 * Vocal Intonation Therapy (VIT): Intoned phrases simulating the prosody, inflection and pacing of normal speech.


 * Therapeutic Singing (TS): Allows to practice articulation or initiation of speech as well as increase breath control and posture.


 * Oral Motor and Respiratory Exercises (OMREX): Uses different musical elements to practice muscular control of a speech apparatus to facilitate the production of specific sounds.

Profession
A board certified music therapist who is professionally trained according to the standards of their country must complete a foundational training in neurologic music therapy and may use the professional designation of NMT to become a member of the Academy for three years. Completion of the NMT training allows the board-certified music therapist to practice and use the credential of NMT .