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Can musical intervention improve memory in Alzheimer’s patients? Evidence from a systematic review

Overview of attention for article published in Dementia & Neuropsychologia, June 2018
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Title
Can musical intervention improve memory in Alzheimer’s patients? Evidence from a systematic review
Published in
Dementia & Neuropsychologia, June 2018
DOI 10.1590/1980-57642018dn12-020005
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Shirlene Vianna Moreira, Francis Ricardo dos Reis Justi, Marcos Moreira

Abstract

Treatment with music has shown effectiveness in the treatment of general behavioural and cognitive symptoms of patients with various types of dementia. To assess the effectiveness of treatment with music on the memory of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). A systematic search was performed on PubMed (Medline), Cochrane Library, PsycINFO and Lilacs databases up to June 2017 and included all randomized controlled trials that assessed memory using musical interventions in patients with AD. Forty-two studies were identified, and 24 studies were selected. After applying the exclusion criteria, four studies involving 179 patients were included. These studies showed the benefits of using music to treat memory deficit in patients with AD. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first systematic review focusing on randomized trials found in the literature that analysed the role of musical interventions specifically in the memory of patients with AD. Despite the positive outcome of this review, the available evidence remains inconsistent due to the small number of randomized controlled trials.

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Unknown 193 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 44 23%
Student > Master 23 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 9%
Researcher 10 5%
Student > Postgraduate 5 3%
Other 18 9%
Unknown 76 39%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 23 12%
Psychology 23 12%
Arts and Humanities 11 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 10 5%
Social Sciences 8 4%
Other 37 19%
Unknown 81 42%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 178. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 February 2024.
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#1
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