Bayside Music Therapy Services provides quality Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT) for individuals in San Ramon and the surrounding area. Music Therapy is a professional healthcare discipline that uses music as a therapeutic tool to facilitate achievement of functional, individualized, nonmusical goals. Research shows that when implemented by a trained practitioner, clinical music therapy techniques can facilitate positive change in sensorimotor function, cognition, communication, social interaction, and emotional processes. As defined by the Center for Biomedical Research in Music, Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT) is the therapeutic application of music to cognitive, sensory, and motor dysfunctions due to neurological disease. NMT and its standardized treatment techniques are based on a neuroscience model of music perception and production that has developed in response to basic and clinical research in these domains.