Lectures and seminars Brain and Culture Lecture: Music interventions in health care
Speaker: Kira Vibe Jespersen, Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Denmark
Host: Gunnar Bjursell, John Sennett
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Biography
Kira Vibe Jespersen, PhD, is MSc in psychology with an additional BA in Music Therapy. She holds a PhD in health sciences from Aarhus University, where she is now Assistant Professor at the Danish National Research Foundation’s Center of Excellence for Music in the Brain. Her research focus on clinical applications of music with a particular interest in the effect of music on sleep and the potential use of music for insomnia. As part of her research, she evaluates both the effect of music interventions and works at unravelling the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying these effects.