Refereed journal articles and chapters in books - Monographs or scholarly editions - Conference/seminar papers and presentations - Conferences organised

Refereed journal articles and chapters in books

Fachner, J., & Erkkilä , J. (2013). The Finnish research model of a music therapy practice treating depression. Musiktherapeutische Umschau, in press.

Gold, C., Fachner, J., & Erkkilä , J. (2013). Validity and reliability of electroencephalographic frontal alpha asymmetry and frontal midline theta as biomarkers for depression. Scand J Psychol, in press.

Fachner, J., Gold, C., & Erkkilä, J. (2012). Music therapy modulates fronto-temporal activity in the rest-EEG in depressed clients. Brain Topography. doi:10.1007/s10548-012-0254-x

Erkkilä, J., Ala-Ruona, E., Punkanen, M., & Fachner, J. (2012). Perspectives on creativity in improvisational, psychodynamic music therapy. In D. Hargreaves, D. Miell & R. MacDonald (Eds.), Musical Imaginations: multidisciplinary perspectives on creativity, performance and perception (pp. 414-428). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0199568086

Fachner, J. (2012). "...if you're a viper." Consciousness states in a social pharmacology of music. In A. E. Cavanna & A. Nani (Eds.), Consciousness: States, Mechanisms and Disorders. Hauppauge NY Nova Science Publishers. ISBN: 978-1-62081-350-8

Erkkilä , J., Punkanen, M., Fachner, J., Ala-Ruona, E., Pöntiö, I., Tervaniemi, M., et al. (2011). Individual music therapy for depression - Randomised Controlled Trial. Br J Psychiatry, 199(2), 132-139

Fachner, J. (2011). Time is the key - Music and ASC. In E. Cardenas, M. Winkelmann, C. Tart & S. Krippner (Eds.), Altering Consciousness: A multidisciplinary perspective (Vol. 1 History, Culture and the Humanities, pp. 355-376). Santa Barbara: Praeger. ISBN: 978-0-313-38308-3

Blätter, A. E., Fachner, J. C., & Winkelman, M. (2011). Addiction - Dynamics and Relations to Altered States of Consciousness. In E. Cardenas & M. Winkelman (Eds.), Altering Consciousness: A multidisciplinary perspective (Vol. 2 Biological and Psychological Perspectives, pp. 167-187). Santa Barbara: Praeger. ISBN: 978-0-313-38308-3

Fachner, J., & Rittner, S. (2011). Ethno therapy, music and trance - An QEEG investigation into a sound-trance induction. In D. Cvetkovic & I. Cosic (Eds.), States of Consciousness: Experimental Insights into Meditation, Waking, Sleep and Dreams (pp. 233-254). Berlin: Springer. ISBN: 978-3-642-18046-0

Fachner, J. (2011). Wanderer between worlds - Anthropological perspectives on healing rituals and music. In L. Cormier & S. Jones (Eds.), Humankind: An Introductory Reader to Cultural Anthropology (pp. 137-155). San Diego: Cognella, an imprint of University Readers, Inc. ISBN: 978-1-60927-820-5

Fachner, J. (2011). Come to your senses - Music and EEG. In E. B. Miller (Ed.), Bio-Guided Music Therapy (pp. 25-29). London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. ISBN: 978-1-84905-844-5

Fachner, J. (2011). Drugs, altered states and musical consciousness: reframing time and space. In E. Clarke & D. Clarke (Eds.), Music and consciousness (pp. 263-280). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0-19-955379-2

Fachner, J., Magill, L., Sundar, S., & Tucek, G. (2011). Music therapy and spirituality in health care: Multicultural theories, approaches, and research. In P. Kern, J. Fachner, B. Choi & Y. Kim (Eds.), Music Therapy Today (Vol. 9, pp. 144-145). Seoul, Korea: World Federation of Music Therapy.

Fachner, J., Gold, C., Ala-Ruona, E., Punkanen, M., & Erkkilä, J. (2010). Depression and music therapy treatment - clinical validity and reliability of EEG alpha asymmetry and frontal midline theta: three case studies. In S. M. Demorest, S. J. Morrison & P. S. Campbell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (CD-ROM) (pp. 11-18). Seattle: University of Washington - School of Music. ISBN: 978-1-876346-62-0

Fachner, J. (2010). Music therapy, drugs and state-dependent recall. In D. Aldridge & J. Fachner (Eds.), Music therapy and addictions (1 ed., pp. 18-34). London: Jessica Kingsley

Fachner, J. (2010). 25th Anniversary of the World Federation of Music Therapy: Looking Forward. Voices - a world forum for music therapy, 10(3)

Monographs or scholarly editions

Brabant, O., Johannsson, K., & Fachner, J. (Eds.). (2012). 7th Nordic Music therapy Congress - Music therapy models, methods and techniques. Jyväskylä: Jyväskylä University Press

Kern, P., Fachner, J., Choi, B., & Kim, Y. (Eds.). (2011). Music Therapy in Eastern and Western Philosophy - Proceedings of the 13 World Congress of Music Therapy (Vol. 9). Seoul: World Federation of Music Therapy

Aldridge, D., & Fachner, J. (Eds.). (2010). Music Therapy and addictions. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. ISBN: 978-1-84905-012-8

Fachner, J. C. (2010). Veränderte Musikwahrnehmung durch THC im Hirnstrombild. Saarbruecken: SVH. ISBN: 978-3-8381-1869-7

Aldridge, D., & Fachner, J. (Eds.). (2006). Music and Altered States - Consciousness, Transcendence, Therapy and Addictions. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. ISBN: 978-1-84310-373-8

Conference/seminar papers and presentations

Fachner, J., & Erkkilä, J. (2012, 8-10 November). Treatment response to improvisational music therapy in the EEG of depressed clients. Paper presented at the Mozart & Science, Krems, Austria.

Fachner, J. (2012, 18-21 October). Music therapy added to standard care modulates fronto-temporal activity in the rest-EEG in depressed clients with comorbid anxiety. Paper presented at the 17th Biennial Conference of the International Pharmaco-EEG Society, New York University Hospital.

Fachner, J., & Erkkilä, J. (2012, 12-14 October). Fronto-temporale Veränderungen im Ruhe-EEG depressiver Patienten nach improvisatorisch-psychodynamischer Musiktherapie. Paper presented at the 21. Deutsches EEG/EP Mapping Meeting, University of Giessen, Germany.

Fachner, J. (2012, 23-28 July). Finding the right tone for right words? Music therapy EEG and fronto-temporal processing in depressed clients. Paper presented at the 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC); 8th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), Thessaloniki, Greece.

Fachner, J. (2012, 23-28 July). Reframing time and space - Drugs and musical consciousness. Paper presented at the 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC); 8th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), Thessaloniki, Greece.

Erkkilä, J., & Fachner, J. (2012, 23-28 July). A randomized controlled trail on improvisational psychodynamic music therapy in depression treatment. Paper presented at the 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC); 8th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), Thessaloniki, Greece.

Fachner, J., & Gilbertson, S. (2012, 13-17 June). Imaging and sensing - convergence of basic and applied research and practice with music, music therapy and the brain. Symposium organized for the 7th Nordic Music Therapy Congress - Music therapy models, methods and techniques, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Fachner, J. (2012, 13-17 June). Music therapy and brain imaging: current state, settings and methodological conundrums. Paper presented at the 7th Nordic Music Therapy Congress - Music therapy models, methods and techniques, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Fachner, J. (2012, 13-17 June). Music therapy and treatment response of depressive clients in the EEG. Paper presented at the 7th Nordic Music Therapy Congress - Music therapy models, methods and techniques, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Fachner, J. (2012, 21-23 March). How the brain responds to music and speech in depression treatment. Paper presented at the 16th Annual symposium for music scholars in Finland, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Fachner, J. (2012, 21 -23 March). Pharmacological influences on music and temporality. Poster presented at the 16th Annual symposium for music scholars in Finland, University of Jyväskylä.

Fachner, J. (2012, 24-25 February). Music therapy modulates fronto-temporal activity in the rest-EEG in depressed clients. Paper presented at the Workshop on Segregation and integration in music and language, University of Tuebingen, Germany.

Fachner, J. (2012, 3-5 February). Music therapy in depression treatment. Paper presented at the FINO meeting: Arts and Health Riistina, Finland.

Fachner, J., Gold, C., & Erkkillä, J. (2011, 9-11. September). Fronto-temporal rest EEG changes after music therapy treatment in depression: results of an RCT. Paper presented at the Music and Health - Annual Meeting of the German Society for Music Psychology 9-11 September, University of Osnabrueck, Germany.

Fachner, J., Gold, C., Oja, S., Punkanen, M., Ala-Ruona, E., Vanhala, M., et al. (2011, 9-12 June). Depression, frontal processing and rest EEG: comparing music therapy and standard care. Poster presented at the The Neurosciences and Music IV - Learning and memory, Edinburgh.

Fachner, J. (2011). Music Therapy and Spirituality in Health Care: Multicultural Theories, Approaches and Research. Symposium organised for the XIII. World Congress for Music Therapy, 5-9 July 2011, Seoul, Korea. (Symposium).

Fachner, J., Erkkilä, J., Oja, S., & Gold, C. (2011, 17 March). Electroencephalographic biomarkers for depression in music therapy treatment: validity, reliability and predictability. Paper presented at the Suomen Musiikkitiede - 100 Years University of Helsinki, 15-18 March.

Burger, B., Ala-Ruona, E., Järvinen-Lepistö, P., Bamberg, H., Suhonen, J., Fachner, J., et al. (2011). Employing motion capture in studying the effects of active music therapy for post-stroke recovery. In A.-E. Pääkkölä (Ed.), paper presented at the Suomen Musiikkitiede - 100 vuotta (100 Years of Musicological Scholarship in Finland), 15-18 March, (pp. 15-16). University of Helsinki, Finnish Musicological Society.

Kern, P., & Fachner, J. (2010, 5-9 May). Let's go international: Exploring challenges in research, practice and education - Round table of the World Federation of Music Therapy. Paper presented at the VIII European Music Therapy Congress "Evidence for Music Therapy Practice, Research & Education", University of Cadiz, Spain.

Fachner, J., Gold, C., Oja, S., Punkanen, M., Ala-Ruona, E., Vanhala, M., et al. (2010). Music Therapy and Standard Care Treatment of Depressed Clients: Differences in the Rest EEG (Poster). Paper presented at the CoE SAB Meeting.

Fachner, J., Gold, C., Ala-Ruona, E., Punkanen, M., & Erkkilä, J. (2010, 23 August). Depression and music therapy treatment - clinical validity and reliability of EEG alpha asymmetry and frontal midline theta. Paper presented at the 11th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, 23-27 August, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.

Fachner, J., & Erkkillä, J. (2010, 5 November). Improvisational psychodynamic music therapy in depression treatment - EEG data. Paper presented at the Mozart & Science - 3rd International congress for the interdisciplinary research on the effects and the experience of music 4-6 November 2010, Krems. Austria, Kloster Und - IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems.

Fachner, J. (2010, 10 November). How the brain responds to music therapy? Paper presented at the Finnish Science days - Music, mind and brain, 9-10 November, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.

Fachner, J. (2010, 30 October). Music, drugs and altered states of consciousness. Paper presented at the 1st International Congress on Cannabis as Medicine, 29-31 October 2010, Vienna, Austria - Event Hotel Pyramide.

Fachner, J. (2010, 23-27 August). Altered temporality and acoustic perception under the influence of THC. Paper presented at the 11th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.

Fachner, J. (2010, 6 May). Demand for Spirituality - Music and ASC. Paper presented at the VIII European Music Therapy Congress "Evidence for Music Therapy Practice, Research & Education, 5-9 May 2009", University of Cadiz, Spain.

Erkkillä, J., & Fachner, J. (2010, 5 November). Improvisational psychodynamic music therapy in depression treatment - RCT outcomes. Paper presented at the Mozart & Science - 3rd International congress for the interdisciplinary research on the effects and the experience of music 4-6 November 2010, Krems. Austria, Kloster Und - IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems.

Erkkilä, J., Fachner, J., Ala-Ruona, E., & Punkanen, M. (2010). Improvisational psychodynamic music therapy for depression. Paper presented at the VIII European Music Therapy Congress "Evidence for Music Therapy Practice, Research & Education", University of Cadiz, Spain.

Conferences organised

7th Nordic Music Therapy Congress - Music therapy models, methods and techniques, 13-17 June 2012, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.