Dancing through neurocognitive changes: dance/movement therapy supporting caregivers and people living with Alzheimer’s and other dementias. Frontiers in Psychology, 2024

Research collaborator of Paul Dennis, MFA, Hunter College, CUNY: Movement Intervention for Neurodegenerative Disease (MIND): Dance for Huntington’s Disease (DfHD), Spring 2024 

Beauty That Moves: Dance for Parkinson’s Effects on Affect, Self-Efficacy, Gait Symmetry, and Dual Task Performance. Frontiers in Psychology, 2021

Rehabilitative Movement Approaches and Dance Interventions in Parkinson’s Disease. City University of New York (CUNY), 2020

Mechanisms of Dance in the Rehabilitation of Neurodegenerative Condition. Brain, Body, Cognition 2018

Intensive Rehabilitation Enhances Lymphocyte BDNF-TrkB Signaling in Patients With Parkinson’s Disease. Neurorehabilitation and neural repair, 2016

Frazzitta, G., Maestri, R., Ferrazzoli, D., Riboldazzi, G., Bera, R., Fontanesi, C., Rossi, R.P., Pezzoli, G., Ghilardi, M.F. (2015). Multidisciplinary intensive rehabilitation treatment improves sleep quality in Parkinson disease. Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders, 2:11. doi: 10.1186/s40734-015-0020-9.

Moisello, C., Blanco, D., Fontanesi, C., Lin, J., Biagioni, M., Kumar, P., Brys, M., Loggini, A., Marinelli, L., Abbruzzese, G., Quartarone, A., Tononi, G., Di Rocco, A., Ghilardi, M.F. (2015). TMS enhances retention of a motor skill in Parkinson’s disease. Brain Stimulation, 8(2):224-30. doi: 10.1016/j.brs.2014.11.005.

The stratification of affective life within movement (LIMS ®, 2011) by Cecilia Fontanesi (Advisor Mariangela Lopez). Accessible through the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies, LIMS® Resource Center is located within the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies, 138 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217.

Ph.D. and M.Phil. in Neuroscience, Biology from CUNY The Graduate Center, M.S. in Biology of Behavior from the University of Firenze, Italy. Find my profile on Google Scholar.

Her doctoral dissertation focused on rehabilitative movement approaches and dance interventions in Parkinson’s Disease.