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Pubblications

Reserach paper

  • Mangiacotti, A., Barone, C., Hsu, M. H., Vanpujvelde, M., Zandonà, A., Gabai, G., Biasutti, M., & Franco, F. (2024). Effects of one-to-one music therapy in older adults with cognitive impairment: An RCT. Psychology and Aging. 39(8), 960. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000861
     

  • Mangiacotti, A. M., Masotti, A., & Biasutti, M. (2024). The impact of community music therapy intervention in older adults’ care home communities: Assessing community music therapists’ views. International journal of community music, 17(1), 37-60 https://doi.org/10.1386/ijcm_00096_1

  • Hussain, J., Mangiacotti, A., Franco, F., & Chinellato, E. (2023). Robotic Music Therapy Assistant: A Cognitive Game Playing Robot. In International Conference on Social Robotics (pp. 81-94). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore
     

  • Mangiacotti, A., Cipriani, G., Ward, E., Franco, F., & Biasutti, M. (2023). Development and validation of the Music Cognitive Test: A music-based cognitive screening test. Psychology of Music, 51(2), 373-394. https://doi.org/10.1177/03057356221100851
     

  • Mangiacotti, A. M., Carta, S., Valdes, A. L., Reilly, R. B., Franco, F., & Di Liberto, G. M. (2022). The Impact of Temporal Synchronisation Imprecision on TRF Analyses. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 109765. 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2022.109765
     

  • Mangiacotti, M. A. Franco F., Hsu M., Biasutti., M (2021). Evaluating a continuing professional development course on cognitive functions for Music Therapists working in care homes. The Arts in Psychotherapy. 10.1016/j.aip.2021.101800 
     

  • Biasutti, M., Concina, E., Deloughry, C., Frate, S., Konkol, G., Mangiacotti, A., ... & Vidulin, S. (2020). The effective music teacher: A model for predicting music teacher’s self-efficacy. Psychology of Music, 0305735620959436
     

  • Biasutti, M., & Mangiacotti, A. (2019). Music Training Improves Depressed Mood Symptoms in Elderly People: A Randomized Controlled Trial. The International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 0091415019893988
     

  • Mangiacotti, A., Hsu, M. H., Barone, C., Di Liberto, G., Van Puyvelde, M., Biasutti, M., & Franco, F. (2019). P3‐465: Effects of music therapy in elderly care: cognition, biomarkers, mood and social behaviour. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 15, P1144-P1144
     

  • Biasutti, M., & Mangiacotti, A. (2018). Assessing a cognitive music training for older participants: a randomised controlled trial. International journal of geriatric psychiatry, 33(2), 271-278

 

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Book Chapters
 

  • Coombes, E., Slabu, L., Mangiacotti, A., Hadar, T., & Franco, F. (2025). Music for Displaced Dyads (M4DD): A music therapy feasibility study for displaced Ukrainian parents and their pre-school children. In S. Gracida, E. Maclean, & E. Coombes (Eds.), Music Therapy with Displaced Persons: Exploring Trauma, Transformation and Cultural Connections (pp. 212-231). Jessica Kingsley Publishers. ISBN: 1805013831, 9781805013839
     

  • Mangiacotti, A. M. A., & Biasutti, M. (2023). Musicamente. Musicoterapia nel contesto dei centri residenziali per anziani. In G. Manarolo (Ed.), Musica e musicoterapia nella terza età. Indicazioni per la prevenzione e la cura delle sindromi involutive (pp. 95–116). Franco Angeli, collana Psicologia, 1240.448. ISBN: 9788835145127
     

  • Mangiacotti, A. M. A. (2021). Attività musicali per contrastare il declino cognitivo negli anziani. In Antonella Coppi (Ed.) Donare-Donarsi: Relazioni, interdipendenze e inclusione nella pedagogia della Community Music. Libreria Musicale Italiana. ISBN: 9788870969603
     

  • Mangiacotti, A. M. A. (2020). L’importanza della valutazione del paziente. Apporti e contributi nella musicoterapia. In M. Degli Stefani, M. Guadagnini & A. Schön (Eds.), Le libere improvvisazioni – La regola e l’eccezione dai percorsi musicali ai percorsi di cura (122-129). PerSona – Cleup. ISBN: 9788854952942

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