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Kimberly Sena Moore @ksenamooremtbc.bsky.social · 16h

Who knew that years later this interest in advocacy and policy would be so prevalent in my professional life.

Although I didn’t speak much (Chris handled the testimony beautifully), it is always a privilege and pleasure to be a part of these types of experiences.

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Kimberly Sena Moore @ksenamooremtbc.bsky.social · 16h

The first time I testified at a state Capitol was in the early 2000s when I was an undergrad music therapy major at the University of Iowa.

My professor, Dr. Kate Gfeller, invited me to join her and two other faculty to speak, if memory serves, about my experiences as a university student.

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Kimberly Sena Moore @ksenamooremtbc.bsky.social · 16h

What a pleasure to join Kentucky music therapists Chris Millet & Elliott Buckner at the State Capitol in Frankfurt. We testified during a meeting of the Interim Comm on Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations in support of creating a #musictherapy license in the state.

Short 🧵

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Kimberly Sena Moore @ksenamooremtbc.bsky.social · 1d

There is a very real (and difficult) funding issue happening in Florida right now impacting music therapists and the clients (mostly children) we serve.

This post by Stephen Choate that clearly outlines the issue: musicmed.org/blog/the-fut...

Y’all…policy matters!

#musictherapy

The Future of Music Therapy in Florida

Florida music therapists face major Medicaid changes after MTM’s contract ends—delays, rate cuts, and a system-wide restructuring.

musicmed.org

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Kimberly Sena Moore @ksenamooremtbc.bsky.social · 1d

Traveling today and made it a point to thank all those @tsa.gov workers at RSW who showed up despite the ongoing #governmentshutdown.

It was a calm and smooth experience today 😌

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Music, Mind, Body and Brain @coe-mmbb.bsky.social · 10d

Our study about reminiscence bump(s) in personally meaningful music:

Your life’s greatest hits? A global study finds they trace back to our teens. Timing changes w/ age & gender: as we age, men stick to old favourites, women embrace newer tunes! 1/2

Read: t.ly/u2qvJ

#MusicScience #MusicPsychology

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Kimberly Sena Moore @ksenamooremtbc.bsky.social · 8d

Interesting new study exploring patterns and trends in published research on music & emotion regulation.

Short take—it’s developed tremendous over the decades and remains of continued scholarly interest 🤩

Check it out: doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

#musictherapy #musicscience #emotionregulation

Frontiers | Music-based emotion regulation: a bibliometric systematic review (2000–2024)

BackgroundMusic Emotion Regulation (MER) research has emerged as a significant field in mental health intervention, yet a comprehensive bibliometric analysis...

doi.org

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Kimberly Sena Moore @ksenamooremtbc.bsky.social · 11d

Dolphin came to PLAY! 🐬😍

#dolphin #beachday

Kimberly Sena Moore @ksenamooremtbc.bsky.social · 14d

Grading an assignment here and one of my favorite errors students make is writing “illicit” when in fact they mean “elicit”:

The emotions tied to the music would not illicit the same response in every person.

I chuckle every time…

#academicsky

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Kimberly Sena Moore @ksenamooremtbc.bsky.social · 16d

It’s my fifth time through so…nope 🙃

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Kimberly Sena Moore @ksenamooremtbc.bsky.social · 17d

I just finished my mandatory annual faculty training modules.

Before the deadline.

It took 3 hours.

Please clap.

#academicsky

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Kimberly Sena Moore @ksenamooremtbc.bsky.social · 17d

Oh that would definitely work 100% of the time! 😵‍💫

Kimberly Sena Moore @ksenamooremtbc.bsky.social · 19d

Going through these mandatory annual training modules. Current module covers ethics and compliance, and I just read that “you can be ethical while not being compliant.”

A timely reminder as a teacher in Florida, USA.

#academicsky

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Kimberly Sena Moore @ksenamooremtbc.bsky.social · 24d

Digging the clouds and lighting from tonight’s sunset 😌

#photography #sunset

Picture of a sunset with blue and yellow sky and a big fluffy white cloud.

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Kimberly Sena Moore @ksenamooremtbc.bsky.social · 24d

Well this was a fun email to get!

One of my recent articles published in Frontiers in Neuroscience just reached a new impact milestone of 500+ downloads and 2,000+ views!

Here’s the link if you’d like to read it:

www.frontiersin.org/article/1568...

#musictherapy #musicscience #academicsky

Frontiers | A theory of intervention model to define the essential characteristics of music to support emotion regulation development in early childhood

Recent work in the area of health intervention development has emphasized the need to articulate a theory of intervention. This begins with the development o...

www.frontiersin.org

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Kimberly Sena Moore @ksenamooremtbc.bsky.social · 25d

Heading out for a little mother-daughter day trip to Orlando for a concert tonight 🤩

(The twinning was accidental 🙃)

Selfie of a middle aged woman and teen daughter looking at the camera and smiling. Both are wearing white tops and black bottoms.

Kimberly Sena Moore @ksenamooremtbc.bsky.social · 26d

I’m grateful to my FGCU colleague Dr. Eric Shamus for the initial invitation to present at this conference. What a fun stretch it was for me to share this information in a new way with a different audience I don’t typically get to connect with!

Kimberly Sena Moore @ksenamooremtbc.bsky.social · 26d

🎶 Actual music examples, which not only illustrated different concepts but likely also helped to hold the audience’s attention during a post-lunch, hour and a half, midafternoon talk.

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Kimberly Sena Moore @ksenamooremtbc.bsky.social · 26d

🎶 Rhythmic entrainment, including not only its definition, but also how and why it works (e.g. period entrainment, not beat entrainment), and suggestions for how PTs might use even a simple metronome to support motor rehabilitation work.

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Kimberly Sena Moore @ksenamooremtbc.bsky.social · 26d

🎶 How MBIs can support components of motor rehabilitation, such as repetition (form), cueing (rhythm), and shaping (contour)

🎶 Mechanisms underlying why music works for motor rehabilitation, such as motivation (dopamine), network connectivity (neural synchronization), and arguably most importantly…

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Kimberly Sena Moore @ksenamooremtbc.bsky.social · 26d

I titled the talk “Come Move and Groove with Me: Harnessing Rhythm to Support Patient Outcomes” and included the following:

🎶Brief overview of the music therapy profession

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Kimberly Sena Moore @ksenamooremtbc.bsky.social · 26d

This weekend I had the opportunity to follow through on an invitation to present about music, music therapy, and rehabilitation at the annual Florida Physical Therapy Association (FLPTA) conference in Orlando.

(Short 🧵 below)

#musictherapy #musicscience #rehabilitation #academicsky

Selfie of a middle aged White women with chest length brown hair next to a lighted white screen with “Come Move and Groove with Me” readable in black letters.

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Kimberly Sena Moore @ksenamooremtbc.bsky.social · Sep 23

Some potentially helpful transfers for us music therapists!

#musictherapy

Natalie Peluso 🧠🫁😊 @nataliepeluso.com · Sep 19

Yes! Our scoping review found music evoked the same thing for health and wellbeing 👇 🎵 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

#musicscience

Kimberly Sena Moore @ksenamooremtbc.bsky.social · Sep 22

Tis the season! Always appreciate this part of south FL summer weather, esp the sneak peeks like this.

#photography #rainbow

Photo taken in a parking lot, looking out across cloudy rain clouds. A rainbow is peeking through in the distance.

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Kimberly Sena Moore @ksenamooremtbc.bsky.social · Sep 18

This may be the first music therapy research article I’ve seen that explores how MT, in collaboration with speech therapy, can help improve auditory processing difficulties in military personnel.

What an important program!

Check it out: doi.org/10.3389/fneu...

#musictherapy #musicscience

Frontiers | Auditory cognition lab: a music therapy and speech-language pathology co-treatment for military-connected populations with auditory and cognitive impairment

Military personnel are particularly at risk for auditory processing difficulties as their training, occupational, and combat experiences increase the likelih...

doi.org

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