Research
Books
Baird A., Tamplin J & Garrido S (Editors) (2019). Music and Dementia: From Cognition to Therapy. Oxford University Press.
Baird A. (2019). Sex in the Brain. NewSouth Publishing & Columbia University Press (2020).
Book Chapters
Baird A. (2020). Music evoked autobiographical memories. In K Olsen & W Thompson (Eds). The Science and Psychology of Music: From Mozart at the Office to Metallica at the Gym. California, USA: ABC CLIO.
Baird A. & Thompson W. (2019). Preserved musical instrument playing in dementia: a unique form of access to memory and the self. In Baird A., Tamplin J & Garrido S (Editors). Music and Dementia: From Cognition to Therapy, Oxford University Press.
Baird A. & Samson S. (2015). Music and dementia. In E. Altenmüller, F. Boller & S. Finger (Ed.), Music, Neurology, and Neuroscience: History and Modern Perspectives. Progress in Brain Research Series London, UK: Elsevier.
Baird A. (2014). Dementia. In W.F. Thompson (Ed.), Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (pp. 327-330). New York, USA: Sage Publications, Inc.
Journal articles, last 5 years only
Baird A. and Anderson J. (in press) ‘Sentencing and Placement of Offenders with Dementia: A significant contemporary challenge for the criminal justice system. Journal of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law.
Baird A. (2024) ‘Denial of Desire for Death in Dementia: Why is dementia excluded from Australian Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) legislation? Journal of Law and Medicine
Harris SA, Baird A., CB Harris (2022). ‘She starts to be her old self again’: Familial reflections on pre and post onset identity in people with Alzheimer’s and behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia. International Journal of Care and Caring, 1-19.
Sun Y, Baird A., Gelding R, De Wilt B & Thompson W. (2021) Can music enhance awareness in unresponsive people with severe dementia? An exploratory case series using behavioral, physiological and neurophysiological measures. Neurocase, 27, 354-65.
Harris S.A., Baird A., Matthews, S, Kennett, J, Gelding R., & Harris C.B. (2021) The Impact of Dementia on the Self: Do we consider ourselves the same as others? Neuroethics, 14, 281-295.
Baird A., Gelding R, Brancatisano O, & Thompson W. (2020) A preliminary exploration of the stability of music and photo evoked autobiographical memories over time in people with Alzheimer’s and Behavioural variant Frontotemporal dementia Music & Science, doi 10.1177/2059204320957273
Baird A., Schier, E. & Kennett J. Homicide and Dementia: An investigation of legal, ethical, and clinical factors of Australian legal cases, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 7, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2020.101578
Brancatisano O, Baird A., Thompson W. (2020). Why is Music Therapeutic for Neurological Disorders? The Therapeutic Music Capacities Model. Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews, 112, doi 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.02.008
Baird A., Brancatisano O, Gelding R & Thompson W. (2020). Music evoked autobiographical memories in people with Behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia. Memory, doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2020.1713379
Baird A., Harris CB, Harris SA, Sutton S, Miller L & Barnier AJ. (2020). Does collaboration with an intimate partner support memory performance? An exploratory case series of people with epilepsy or acquired brain injury. Neurorehabilitation, 45, 385-400.
Brancatisano O, Baird A., Thompson W. (2019). A Music, Mind and Movement Program for People with Dementia: Initial Evidence of Improving Cognition. Frontiers in Psychology – Performance Science, 10, 1435.
Harris C., Baird A. & Thompson W. (2019). “They’re Playing Our Song”: Couple-defining songs in intimate relationships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 1-17.
Baird A. (2019). A reflection on the complexity of the self in severe dementia. Cogent Psychology, 6, 1574055.