A pilot study funded through the audioanalgesia pilot program is building a mouse model to help researchers discover how music eases pain. The project is led by Stephen Boehm, PhD, at Indiana University Indianapolis, with collaborator Mark Jensen, PhD, at the University of Washington. Music-based interventions may reduce pain and could lessen reliance on opioidRead more
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A pilot study funded through the audioanalgesia pilot program is now under way at the Yale School of Nursing, and its protocol has been posted as a preprint on medRxiv. Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common brain-gut disorder that causes recurrent abdominal pain. Music-based interventions have shown benefits for pain and stress, but littleRead more
The four NIH-funded music research networks, including audioanalgesia, have published the Music-Based Intervention (MBI) Taxonomy in Frontiers in Psychology. Research on music and health spans many disciplines, and each tends to describe interventions in its own terms. A multidisciplinary working group from the four U24 networks built a shared framework so that studies can beRead more
A new open-access scoping review in PAIN Reports maps what researchers have learned so far about how music-based interventions reduce pain. The review is a collaboration among the NIH music research networks, including audioanalgesia. The team screened 663 records and included 57 studies that tested a mechanism, moderator, or predictor of music’s effect on clinicalRead more