Events and Meetings
PhD defense by Marianna Ruiz Loria
Marianna Ruiz Loria defends her PhD degree at the University of Bergen on February 14, 2025 with the thesis "Music Therapy with Autistic Children. Insights from a Crossover Study on Psychometric Outcomes and Participant Preferences."
https://www.uib.no/nye-doktorgrader/175785/musikkterapi-med-autistiske-barn
The Neurosciences and Music VIII "Wiring, re-wiring, and well-being" | Helsinki, Finland & online
Poster presentation "Music therapy and predictive ability in children with autism" by Asena U. Koçan, Alexander Groessing, Marianna Ruiz, Alexandrina Guran, Nace Mikus, Maj-Britt Posserud, Karsten Specht, Christian Gold, and Giorgia Silani
Poster presentation "Neurobehavioral outcomes of music therapy for autistic children" by Marianna Ruiz, Maayan Salomon-Gimmon, Alexander Groessing, Asena U. Koçan, Maj-Britt Posserud, Karsten Specht, Giorgia Silani, and Christian Gold
Society for Social Neuroscience 2024 annual meeting | Tsukuba, Japan
Poster presentation “Music therapy and predictive ability in children with autism” by Asena U. Koçan, Alexander Groessing, Marianna Ruiz, Alexandrina Guran, Nace Mikus, Maj-Britt Posserud, Karsten Specht, Christian Gold and Giorgia Silani.
MEi:CogSci Conference 2023 | Budapest, Hungary
Paper presentation “Exploring empathy in music therapy for children with autism spectrum disorder” by Alyssa Hawkins (University of Vienna)
https://journals.phl.univie.ac.at/meicogsci/article/view/648
INSAR 2023 ANnual Meeting | Stockholm, Sweden
Paper presentation “Music therapy for autistic people: Update of a Cochrane Review” by Laura Fusar-Poli, Marianna Ruiz, Monika Geretsegger, Cochavit Elefant, Giovanni Vitale, and Christian Gold
https://www.autism-insar.org/page/2023AnnMtg
ESSENCE Conference | Cape Town, South Africa
ESSENCE Conference and online E-Poster presentation “Music for Autism: Neurobehavioral outcomes of music therapy for children with autism” by Marianna Ruiz
www.essence2023.com
M4A project meeting | Vienna, Austria
Meeting of Norwegian and Austrian project team members (researchers and therapists)
Location: Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria
Lecture series "Music and Medicine" | Salzburg, Austria
Lecture “Music and Autism” by Christian Gold
Location: Atelier im KunstQuartier, Bergstraße 12a, Salzburg, Austria
Organisers: “Wissenschaft und Kunst”, a cooperation between Paris Lodron University Salzburg & Mozarteum University
https://w-k.sbg.ac.at/veranstaltung/15-12-music-and-autism-christian-gold/
Musica come cura | Lugano, Switzerland
Presentation “Healing through Music - Music therapy in child neuropsychiatric setting and psychiatry” by Christian Gold
Location: Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
https://www.usi.ch/en/feeds/23224
12th European Music Therapy Conference | Edinburgh, UK
Paper presentation “Music for Autism (M4A): Binational randomised controlled trial investigating effects and working mechanisms of music therapy in children with autism” by Marianna Ruiz, Alexander Groessing, Giorgia Silani, Karsten Specht, and Christian Gold
www.qmu.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/emtc-2022
M4A project meeting | Vienna, Austria
Meeting of Norwegian and Austrian project team members (researchers and therapists)
Location: Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria
Autism in Austria | Klosterneuburg, Austria
Paper presentation “Music for Autism (M4A): Building an evidence base and searching for mechanisms” by Christian Gold
Location: Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria
https://ist.ac.at/en/news-events/event/?eid=3389
M4A kick-off meeting | Vienna, Austria
Location: Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria
The Neurosciences and Music - VII | Aarhus, Denmark
Paper presentation “Discrepant results between small exploratory trials and a multinational pragmatic trial of music therapy for autism: Heterogeneity on all levels (and how we might tackle it” by Christian Gold and Karsten Specht
https://www.fondazione-mariani.org/en/congresso/the-neurosciences-and-music-vii-2/
Meeting | Vienna, Austria
Meeting of researchers in the field of music in autism from Norway, Austria, and Canada (from left to right: Monika Geretsegger, Karsten Specht, Megha Sharda, Julian Tillmann and Christian Gold)
Location: University of Vienna, Austria