Clara Takarabe

First Name: 
Clara
Last Name: 
Takarabe
Email: 
[email protected]
Title: 
Co-Director and Investigator
Organization/Affiliation (no abbreviation): 
Northwestern Music and Medicine Program
Short Biography: 
Clara Takarabe co-directs the Northwestern Music and Medicine Program with cognitive neurologist Dr. Borna Bonakdarpour and is part of the team which created Clinically Designed Improvisatory Music (CDIM), a type of social-clinical music designed along neuropsychiatric frameworks of felt safety. CDIM is being investigated for induced calmness for the neuropsychiatric syndromes of Alzheimer’s through a National Endowment for the Arts Soundhealth Initiative and also an Osher Foundation grant. In her musical career, Ms. Takarabe presently plays viola in the Chicago Symphony and is in an experimental electronic band called Nireus with composer-synthesis Anton Riehl.
Website: 
https://www.music-medicine.org