Music and Health is a newly established interdisciplinary initiative that aims to generate and apply robust scientific evidence on the contributions of music to health and well-being. It is framed within the Knowledge and Quality of Life challenge described in the Catalunya Lidera strategy, the Government Plan of the 15th Legislature and the Draghi Report. The project seeks to achieve a dual impact: on the one hand, to drive the production of original knowledge; and on the other, to effectively contribute to improving citizens’ quality of life through digitalisation and technological innovation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Music therapy<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n Musical computing<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n Music (635)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n Personality, assessment and psychological treatments (680)<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n Special education; special education (580205): Music therapy<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (075)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n Dr. Francisco Almaz\u00e1n Castro (Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol)<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n Dr. Enric Guaus T\u00e9rmens<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n Dr. Perfecto Herrera Boyer<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n Dr. Melissa Mercadal Coll <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n Emotional well-being of musicians at different professional and life stages.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n Music therapy in the medical-hospital setting.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n Integration of Technology in Music Therapy Interventions.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n Dr. Melissa Mercadal: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Catherine Clancy Abercrombie, La sistematizaci\u00f3n de un protocolo cl\u00ednico para la inclusi\u00f3n de la musicoterapia en la rehabilitaci\u00f3n de ni\u00f1os y adultos con par\u00e1lisis cerebral<\/em>, Universitat Ramon Llull, 2014, cosupervised by Carme Sol\u00e9 and Melissa Mercadal.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n Mar\u00eda Teresa del Mora, Investigaci\u00f3n en musicoterapia: An\u00e1lisis de la situaci\u00f3n actual en Espa\u00f1a y propuestas de mejora<\/em>, Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, 2015, cosupervised by Melissa Mercadal and Andr\u00e9s S\u00e1nchez Prada.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n Patr\u00edcia Mart\u00ed Aug\u00e9, Efecto de la musicoterapia en el estado de \u00e1nimo y calidad de vida de los pacientes con c\u00e1ncer<\/em>, Universitat Ramon Llull, 2016, cosupervised by Carme Sol\u00e9 and Melissa Mercadal.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n Mar\u00eda Merc\u00e8 Mateo Olivares, Validation of a preventive music therapy program for leaders, executives, and managers in the business field<\/em>, Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Madrid (UAM). In progress. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Dr. Perfecto Herrera:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Pablo Puentes Madarn\u00e1s, Synthesizer instruction in music education in Catalonia<\/em>, Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona (UAB), 2024, cosupervised by Perfecto Herrera Boyer and Diego Calder\u00f3n Garrido. <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n Juan Sebasti\u00e1n G\u00f3mez Ca\u00f1\u00f3n, Human-centered machine learning for music emotion recognition<\/em>, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), 2022, cosupervised by Emilia G\u00f3mez Guti\u00e9rrez, Estefan\u00eda Cano Cer\u00f3n and Perfecto Herrera Boyer.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Dr. Enric Guaus:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Adrien Faure Carvallo, Urban popular music and adolescence: Identities and sound models<\/em>, Universitat de Barcelona (UB), 2019, cosupervised by Josep Gustems and Enric Guaus. <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n \u00c1lvaro Sarasua, Relations of music performance with expressiveness and emotion<\/em>, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), 2017, cosupervised by Emilia G\u00f3mez and Enric Guaus.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Research Group in Music and Health (MuHe) Music and Health is a newly established interdisciplinary initiative that aims to generate and apply robust scientific evidence on the contributions of music to health and well-being. 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Group code<\/td> <\/td><\/tr> Coordination<\/td> Dr. Melissa Mercadal <\/td><\/tr> Field of research<\/td> Music and Health<\/td><\/tr> Department<\/td> Education and Artistic Mediation<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n Areas of specialisation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Areas of knowledge (RD 774\/2002)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Disciplines (UNESCO)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Research team<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Research Lines<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Supervised doctoral theses<\/h3>\n\n\n\n