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ReviewJournal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD2021

Pain and Associated Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Patients Suffering from Dementia: Challenges at Different Levels and Proposal of a Conceptual Framework.

Liane Kaufmann, Korbinian Moeller, Josef Marksteiner

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Review in Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  6. Mechanisms of comorbidity between Alzheimer's disease and pain.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
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  11. Editorial: Chronic pain in neuropsychiatric diseases.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Liane KaufmannDepartment of Psychology, University of Innsbruck, Austria.
Korbinian MoellerSchool of Science, Centre for Mathematical Cognition, Loughborough University, United Kingdom.
Josef MarksteinerDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy A, General Hospital Hall in Tirol, Austria.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Old age is critically associated with multi-morbidity, chronic pain, and high risk for dementia. Recognizing and treating pain is very much dependent on language comprehension and production. Both may be impaired in dementia. Moreover, neuropsychiatric symptoms may interact with pain perception. The main aims of the present article were 1) to identify key areas for future research to elucidate the relation between pain and associated neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia, and 2) to provide a conceptual framework for ameliorating the clinical process of recognizing, assessing, and managing pain in non-communicating patients with advanced dementia.

Indexed as

Chronic PainComprehensionDementiaPain MeasurementAgingHumansLanguageDementiadiagnosisneuropsychiatric symptomspainresearch criteriatreatment

Identifiers

PMID34366340
PMCPMC8543251

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