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ReviewCureus2025

From Mood to Memory: Unlocking Saffron's Potential in Brain Health.

Tarlan Kehtari, Diego Cardenas Tovar, Dustin Epstein, Patricia Junquera

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Review in Cureus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
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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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Article
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.

Tarlan KehtariMedicine, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, USA.
Diego Cardenas TovarMedicine, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, USA.
Dustin EpsteinMedicine, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, USA.
Patricia JunqueraPsychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Depression, anxiety, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and Alzheimer's disease (AD) pose ongoing therapeutic challenges, particularly in aging populations. Conventional pharmacologic treatments often have delayed onset, limited efficacy, and unfavorable side effects, prompting interest in natural alternatives. Saffron (

Indexed as

alzheimer's diseaseanxiety disorderscholinesterase inhibitorscrocus sativusdepression treatmentmild cognitive impairmentneurodegenerative diseaseneuroinflammationsaffronselective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (ssri)

Identifiers

PMID40416274
PMCPMC12103703

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