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Conventional and Algorithmic Music Listening During Hemodialysis: A Case Report Open

Alfredo Raglio, Giuseppe Sileno, Federica Boschetti, Federica Liuzzo, Marta Arazzi , et al. · 2025

Patients undergoing hemodialysis frequently experience significant emotional distress, including anxiety and depressive symptoms. Music therapy has emerged as a promising nonpharmacological intervention to alleviate these psychological bur…

Music making and music listening today: Challenges and opportunities Open

Alice Chirico, Alfredo Raglio · 2025

[Music therapy and occupational medicine] Open

Alfredo Raglio, Chiara Imbriani, Enrico Oddone · 2025

This review focuses on randomized and clinical controlled trials regarding the use of music in workplaces. The paper represents a possible starting point to introduce a scientific approach in the use of music techniques in the occupational…

[Music therapy and rehabilitative medicine: current status and future developments] Open

Alfredo Raglio · 2025

Music and music therapy are increasingly used in the context of rehabilitation medicine. By rehabilitation medicine we mean a multidisciplinary approach aimed at intervening on the limitations of motor, cognitive and emotional functions ca…

[Neuromotor rehabilitation with “sonification” techniques] Open

Alfredo Raglio, Daniele Molteni, Chiara Imbriani, Monica Panigazzi · 2025

The use of sound and music in the rehabilitation context is now supported by a lot of scientific evidence. The reiteration of tasks-oriented movements to functional recovery, typical of the rehabilitation training, can be effectively suppo…

Cognitive Stimulation with Music in Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment: A Scoping Review Open

Alfredo Raglio, Camilla Figini, Alice Bencivenni, Federica Grossi, Federica Boschetti , et al. · 2024

Background: The use of music in cognitive interventions represents a possibility with potential worthy of further investigation in the field of aging, both in terms of prevention from dementia, in the phase of mild cognitive impairment, an…

Movement Sonification Techniques to Improve Balance in Parkinson’s Disease: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial Open

Alfredo Raglio, Beatrice De Maria, Monica Parati, Andrea Giglietti, S Premoli , et al. · 2023

Background: Movement sonification has been recently introduced into the field of neuromotor rehabilitation alongside Neurologic Music Therapy and music-based interventions. This study introduces the use of musical auditory cues encompassin…

Artificial Neural Networks for a Semantic Map of Variables in a Music Listening-Based Study Open

Alfredo Raglio, Enzo Grossi, Luca Manzoni · 2023

Music listening is widely used in therapeutic music-based interventions across various clinical contexts. However, relating the diverse and overlapping musical elements to their potential effects is a complex task. Furthermore, the conside…

A novel music-based therapeutic approach: the Therapeutic Music Listening Open

Alfredo Raglio · 2023

The therapeutic use of music is frequently based on active interventions that directly involve the patient through a sonorous-music interaction with the music therapist. In contrast, approaches based on musical listening are characterized …

Music and autobiographical memory: A new experimental protocol Open

Francesca Centomo, Isaline Mottet Wyttenbach, Alice Bencivenni, Alfredo Raglio · 2023

The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

Effect of Algorithmic Music Listening on Cardiac Autonomic Nervous System Activity: An Exploratory, Randomized Crossover Study Open

Alfredo Raglio, Roberto Maestri, Elena Robbi, Antonia Pierobon, Maria Teresa La Rovere , et al. · 2022

It is proven that music listening can have a therapeutic impact in many clinical fields. However, to assume a curative value, musical stimuli should have a therapeutic logic. This study aimed at assessing short-term effects of algorithmic …

Background music in elderly nursing home: a feasibility explorative study Open

Alfredo Raglio, Roberta Pelizza, Camilla Figini, Alice Bencivenni · 2022

Introduction. This study explores how a background music-listening program within residential facilities for the elderly can influence the general environment and be effective on psychological and behavioral aspects. The feasibility of thi…

Music listening for people living with dementia: a systematic review Open

Alfredo Raglio, Stefania Bai, Camilla Figini, Marina Manera, Chiara Imbriani , et al. · 2022

Introduction. This review aimed at exploring how music listening-based approach can be effective on physiological, cognitive and behavioural aspects, with specific reference to the domain of dementias. Music listening can be considered one…

Effects of Algorithmic Music on the Cardiovascular Neural Control. Open

Alfredo Raglio, Beatrice De Maria, Francesca Perego, Gianluigi Galizia, Matteo Gallotta , et al. · 2022

Raglio A, De Maria B, Perego F, Galizia G, Gallotta M, Imbriani C, Porta A, Dalla Vecchia LA. Effects of Algorithmic Music on the Cardiovascular Neural Control. J Pers Med. 2021 Oct 25;11(11):1084. doi: 10.3390/jpm11111084. PMID: 34834436;…

Effects of Algorithmic Music on the Cardiovascular Neural Control. Open

Alfredo Raglio, Beatrice De Maria, Francesca Perego, Gianluigi Galizia, Matteo Gallotta , et al. · 2022

Raglio A, De Maria B, Perego F, Galizia G, Gallotta M, Imbriani C, Porta A, Dalla Vecchia LA. Effects of Algorithmic Music on the Cardiovascular Neural Control. J Pers Med. 2021 Oct 25;11(11):1084. doi: 10.3390/jpm11111084. PMID: 34834436;…

Conventional and Algorithmic Music Listening before Radiotherapy Treatment: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study Open

Alfredo Raglio, Enrico Oddone, Ilaria Meaglia, Maria Cristina Monti, Marco Gnesi , et al. · 2021

Music listening is a widespread approach in the field of music therapy. In this study, the effects of music listening on anxiety and stress in patients undergoing radiotherapy are investigated. Sixty patients with breast cancer who were ca…

Effects of Algorithmic Music on the Cardiovascular Neural Control Open

Alfredo Raglio, Beatrice De Maria, Francesca Perego, Gianluigi Galizia, Matteo Gallotta , et al. · 2021

Music influences many physiological parameters, including some cardiovascular (CV) control indices. The complexity and heterogeneity of musical stimuli, the integrated response within the brain and the limited availability of quantitative …

Algorithmic Music for Therapy: Effectiveness and Perspectives Open

Alfredo Raglio, Paola Baiardi, Giuseppe Vizzari, Marcello Imbriani, Mauro Castelli , et al. · 2021

This study assessed the short-term effects of conventional (i.e., human-composed) and algorithmic music on the relaxation level. It also investigated whether algorithmic compositions are perceived as music and are distinguishable from huma…

Using Formal Grammars as Musical Genome Open

David Daniel Albarracín-Molina, Alfredo Raglio, Francisco Rivas‐Ruiz, Francisco J. Vico · 2021

In this paper, we explore a generative music method that can compose atonal and tonal music in different styles. One of the main differences between regular engineering problems and artistic expressions is that goals and constraints are us…

Hand rehabilitation with sonification techniques in the subacute stage of stroke Open

Alfredo Raglio, Monica Panigazzi, Roberto Colombo, Marco Tramontano, Marco Iosa , et al. · 2021

The Effects of Different Music Genres on Heart Rate Variability in Extremely and Very Low Birth Weight Preterm Neonates: an Italian Randomized Pilot Study Open

Barbara Sgobbi, Maria Elena Bolis, Laura Morlacchi, Jennifer Meessen, Alfredo Raglio , et al. · 2021

Background: Music and music therapy, live or recorded, has been gradually introduced in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of our Hospital in addition to standard medical and nursing care, to improve premature neonates’ neurophysiolog…

Supporting People with Dementia through Music Open

Alfredo Raglio, M. Gianelli, Esme Moniz‐Cook, Jill Manthorpe · 2020

Therapeutic music listening as telehealth intervention Open

Alfredo Raglio · 2020

More music, more health! Open

Alfredo Raglio · 2020

For several decades, music has been used more and more frequently and consciously as a mean of care to reduce or stabilize symptoms and/or complications arising therefrom. This has been the case with several diseases and conditions. Indeed…

Music as support to occupational therapy Open

Alfredo Raglio, Eliana Giambelluca, Giulia Balia, Chiara Imbriani, Monica Panigazzi · 2020

Habilitation, rehabilitation and promotion of well-being is the ultimate goal of the occupational therapy process. Occupational therapy interventions take advantages from interdisciplinary approach, implying that classic rehabilitative mod…

Machine learning techniques to predict the effectiveness of music therapy: A randomized controlled trial Open

Alfredo Raglio, Marcello Imbriani, Chiara Imbriani, Paola Baiardi, Sara Manzoni , et al. · 2019

Music Interventions for Dementia and Depression in ELderly care (MIDDEL): protocol and statistical analysis plan for a multinational cluster-randomised trial Open

Christian Gold, Jasmin Eickholt, Jörg Aßmus, Brynjulf Stige, Jo Dugstad Wake , et al. · 2019

Introduction In older adults, dementia and depression are associated with individual distress and high societal costs. Music interventions such as group music therapy (GMT) and recreational choir singing (RCS) have shown promising effects,…

Music and Technology: The Curative Algorithm Open

Alfredo Raglio, Francisco J. Vico · 2017

OPINION article Front. Psychol., 24 November 2017Sec. Psychology for Clinical Settings Volume 8 - 2017 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02055

Freshwater fish-borne parasitic zoonoses in Italy Open

Andrea Gustinelli, Stefania Barbieri, Marialetizia Fioravanti, Monica Caffara, G Govoni , et al. · 2016

Music Therapy Interventions in Parkinson’s Disease: The State-of-the-Art Open

Alfredo Raglio · 2015

OPINION article Front. Neurol., 31 August 2015Sec. Movement Disorders Volume 6 - 2015 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2015.00185

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