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ReviewBrain sciences2025

Clinical Aspects of Mental Imagery in Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementia: A Review of Cognitive, Motor, and Emotional Interventions.

Anna Christakou, Marousa Pavlou, George Stranjalis, Vasiliki Sakellari

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Review in Brain sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Anna ChristakouDepartment of Physiotherapy, School of Health Sciences, University of West Attica, 12243 Athens, Greece.
Marousa PavlouCentre for Human & Applied Physiological Sciences, King's College, London WC2R 2LS, UK.
George StranjalisDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of Athens, Evangelismos Hospital, 10676 Athens, Greece.
Vasiliki SakellariDepartment of Physiotherapy, School of Health Sciences, University of West Attica, 12243 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-9481-996X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The present review describes the use and effectiveness of mental imagery in Alzheimer's disease-related dementia. Six databases were thoroughly searched from January 2010 to December 2024. Different types of studies were retrieved and reviewed for imagery of the motor, cognitive, and emotional states and quality of life of the elderly with dementia. Although the scarce results showed the positive effect of mental imagery to the every-day life of older adults with dementia, more research should be conducted with larger homogenous samples and more valid tools. Future recommendations are provided.

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Alzheimer’s diseaseanxietybalancecognitive abilitydementiadepressionfunctional statusmental imagerymild cognitive impairmentquality of lifestrength

Identifiers

PMID40149745
PMCPMC11939936

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