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Effects of music therapy on behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

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The present systematic review and meta-analysis suggests that music therapy is effective for the management of BPSD.
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This article is published in Ageing Research Reviews.The article was published on 2013-03-01. It has received 286 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Music therapy & Randomized controlled trial.

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An overview of systematic reviews of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions for the treatment of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia.

TL;DR: Functional analysis-based interventions should be used as first line management of BPSD whenever possible due to the lack of associated adverse events, and low-quality evidence suggests assessment of pain should be conducted and a stepped analgesic approach trialled when appropriate.

What is the evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and well-being?

TL;DR: Results from over 3000 studies identified a major role for the arts in the prevention of ill health, promotion of health, and management and treatment of illness across the lifespan.
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Music‐based therapeutic interventions for people with dementia

TL;DR: Low-quality evidence is found that music-based therapeutic interventions for people with dementia may have little or no effect on emotional well-being and quality of life, and future studies should employ larger sample sizes.
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“Mini-mental state”: A practical method for grading the cognitive state of patients for the clinician

TL;DR: A simplified, scored form of the cognitive mental status examination, the “Mini-Mental State” (MMS) which includes eleven questions, requires only 5-10 min to administer, and is therefore practical to use serially and routinely.

A practical method for grading the cognitive state of patients for the clinician

TL;DR: The Mini-Mental State (MMS) as mentioned in this paper is a simplified version of the standard WAIS with eleven questions and requires only 5-10 min to administer, and is therefore practical to use serially and routinely.
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Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses

TL;DR: A new quantity is developed, I 2, which the authors believe gives a better measure of the consistency between trials in a meta-analysis, which is susceptible to the number of trials included in the meta- analysis.
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