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Article type: Review Article
Authors: Arroyo-Anlló, Eva M.a; * | Sánchez, Jorge Chamorrob | Gil, Rogerc
Affiliations: [a] Department of Psychobiology, University of Salamanca, Neuroscience Institute of Castilla-León, Spain | [b] Faculty of Psychology, Pontifical University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain | [c] Emeriti Professor of Neurology, University Hospital, Poitiers, France
Correspondence: [*] Correspondence to: Prof. Eva M Arroyo-Anlló, Department of Psychobiology, Neuroscience Institute of Castilla-León & Pscyhology Faculty, University of Salamanca, 37007 Salamanca, Spain. Tel.: +34 629460944; E-mail: anlloa@usal.es.
Abstract: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) provides a valuable field of research into impairment of self-consciousness (SC), because AD patients have a reduced capacity to understand their mental world, to experience and relive previous personal events, as well as to interpret thoughts, feelings, and beliefs about themselves. Several studies observed that AD patients had an altered SC, but not a complete abolition of it. Emotions are an integral part of the construction of personal identity, therefore of Self. In general, most studies on emotion in AD patients have observed that emotion is not completely abolished and it lets them better remember autobiographical events with greater emotional charge. The positive effect of autobiographical memories rich in emotional content, evoked directly/automatically by sensorial stimuli such as familiar odors or music, could be used to reestablish/reinforce the permanence and coherence of the Self in AD. We studied the research of empirical evidence supporting the power of the sensorial cues associated with emotion, which could be capable of enhancing the SC in AD. We presented the studies about “Emotional stimulations” using odor, music, or taste cues in AD. All studies have shown to have a positive impact on SC in AD patients such as odor-evoked autobiographical memories, taste/odor-evoked autobiographical memories, emotional sensorial stimulation using musical cues, and multi-sensorial stimulations using healing gardens. We found research supporting the notion that emotional sensorial stimulations can even temporarily exalt memory, affective state, and personal identity, that is, the SC in AD. The emotional sensory stimulations could be used as a tool to activate the SC in AD and hence improve the quality of life of patients and caregivers.
Keywords: Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, emotion, healing garden, music, neurodegenerative disease, non-pharmacological therapy, odor, self-consciousness, sensorial stimulation, smell, taste
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-200408
Journal: Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, vol. 77, no. 2, pp. 505-521, 2020
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