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. 2020 Mar 2;2020(3):CD009628. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD009628.pub2
Source Search strategy Hits retrieved
Cochrane Dementia and Cognitive Improvement Group Specialised Register for DTAs
(Date of most recent search: 29 January 2019)		 MRI OR sMRI OR "magnetic resonance" OR "MR scan*" OR vMRI OR "volumetric MR" January 2012: 51
December 2012: 0
July 2016: 8
June 2017: 3
January 2019: 5
TOTAL: 67
MEDLINE (Ovid SP)
(Ovid MEDLINE Epub Ahead of Print, In‐Process & Other Non‐Indexed Citations, Ovid MEDLINE Daily and Ovid MEDLINE) 1946 to present
(Date of most recent search: 29 January 2019)		 1. *Hippocampus/
2. Hippocampus/pa [Pathology]
3. ((MTL or "medial temporal limbic" or "medial temporal lobe") adj4 atrophy).ti,ab.
4. Gyrus Cinguli/pa [Pathology]
5. Parahippocampal Gyrus/pa [Pathology]
6. (hippocamp* adj4 atrophy).ti,ab.
7. or/1‐6
8. exp Dementia/
9. Cognition Disorders/
10. (alzheimer* or dement* or AD).ti,ab.
11. ((cognit* or memory or cerebr* or mental*) adj3 (declin* or impair* or los* or deteriorat* or degenerat* or complain* or disturb* or disorder*)).ti,ab.
12. MCI.ti,ab.
13. ACMI.ti,ab.
14. ARCD.ti,ab.
15. SMC.ti,ab.
16. CIND.ti,ab.
17. BSF.ti,ab.
18. AAMI.ti,ab.
19. LCD.ti,ab.
20. QD.ti,ab.
21. AACD.ti,ab.
22. MNCD.ti,ab.
23. MCD.ti,ab.
24. (nMCI or aMCI or mMCI).ti,ab.
25. ("N‐MCI" or "A‐MCI" or "M‐MCI").ti,ab.
26. ("pre‐clinical AD" or "pre‐clinical Alzheimer*" or "preclinical AD" or "preclinical alzheimer*").ti,ab.
27. ("dementia prodrome" or "pre‐clinical dementia" or "preclinical dementia" or "pre‐clinical ADD" or "preclinical ADD").ti,ab.
28. or/8‐27
29. 7 and 28
30. Magnetic Resonance Imaging/
31. ("magnetic resonance imaging" or MRI*).ti,ab.
32. ("MR imag*" or "MR scan*").ti,ab.
33. ((structural adj2 MR*) or (volum* adj2 MR*) or "sMRI" or "vMRI").ti,ab.
34. or/30‐33
35. 29 and 34
36. (di or pa or du).fs.
37. or/34,36
38. 7 and 28 and 37
39. exp Dementia/di [Diagnosis]
40. 39 and (34 or 38)
41. 7 and 39
42. or/38,40‐41
43. (animals not (humans and animals)).sh.
44. 42 not 43		 January 2012: 5966
December 2012: 543
July 2016: 1599
June 2017: 898
January 2019: 961
TOTAL: 9967
Embase (Ovid SP)
1974 to present
(Date of most recent search: 29 January 2019)		 1. *Hippocampus/
2. ((MTL or "medial temporal limbic" or "medial temporal lobe") adj4 atroph*).ti,ab.
3. cingulate gyrus/
4. Parahippocampal Gyrus/
5. (hippocamp* adj4 atrophy).ti,ab.
6. or/1‐5
7. exp Dementia/
8. (alzheimer* or dement* or AD).ti,ab.
9. ((cognit* or memory or cerebr* or mental*) adj3 (declin* or impair* or los* or deteriorat* or degenerat* or complain* or disturb* or disorder*)).ti,ab.
10. MCI.ti,ab.
11. ACMI.ti,ab.
12. ARCD.ti,ab.
13. SMC.ti,ab.
14. CIND.ti,ab.
15. BSF.ti,ab.
16. AAMI.ti,ab.
17. LCD.ti,ab.
18. QD.ti,ab.
19. AACD.ti,ab.
20. MNCD.ti,ab.
21. MCD.ti,ab.
22. (nMCI or aMCI or mMCI).ti,ab.
23. ("N‐MCI" or "A‐MCI" or "M‐MCI").ti,ab.
24. ("pre‐clinical AD" or "pre‐clinical Alzheimer*" or "preclinical AD" or "preclinical alzheimer*").ti,ab.
25. ("dementia prodrome" or "pre‐clinical dementia" or "preclinical dementia" or "pre‐clinical ADD" or "preclinical ADD").ti,ab.
26. or/7‐25
27. 6 and 26
28. *Magnetic Resonance Imaging/
29. ("magnetic resonance imaging" or MRI*).ti,ab.
30. ("MR imag*" or "MR scan*").ti,ab.
31. ((structural adj2 (magnetic or MR*)) or (volum* adj2 (magnetic or MR*)) or "sMRI" or "vMRI").ti,ab.
32. or/28‐31
33. 27 and 32
34. (di or pa or du).fs.
35. 32 or 34
36. 6 and 26 and 35
37. exp Dementia/di
38. 37 and (32 or 36)
39. 6 and 37
40. or/36,38‐39		 January 2012: 4367
December 2012: 527
July 2016: 1815
June 2017: 1025
January 2019: 1451
TOTAL: 9185
PsycINFO (Ovid SP)
1806‐January week 4 2019
(Date of most recent search: 29 January 2019)		 1. *Hippocampus/
2. ((MTL or "medial temporal limbic" or "medial temporal lobe") adj4 atrophy).ti,ab.
3. Cingulate Cortex/
4. "gyrus cinguli".ti,ab.
5. "parahippocampal gyrus".ti,ab.
6. (hippocamp* adj4 atrophy).ti,ab.
7. or/1‐6
8. exp Dementia/
9. exp Cognitive Impairment/
10. (alzheimer* or dement* or AD).ti,ab.
11. ((cognit* or memory or cerebr* or mental*) adj3 (declin* or impair* or los* or deteriorat* or degenerat* or complain* or disturb* or disorder*)).ti,ab.
12. MCI.ti,ab.
13. ACMI.ti,ab.
14. ARCD.ti,ab.
15. SMC.ti,ab.
16. CIND.ti,ab.
17. BSF.ti,ab.
18. AAMI.ti,ab.
19. LCD.ti,ab.
20. QD.ti,ab.
21. AACD.ti,ab.
22. MNCD.ti,ab.
23. MCD.ti,ab.
24. (nMCI or aMCI or mMCI).ti,ab.
25. ("N‐MCI" or "A‐MCI" or "M‐MCI").ti,ab.
26. ("pre‐clinical AD" or "pre‐clinical Alzheimer*" or "preclinical AD" or "preclinical alzheimer*").ti,ab.
27. ("dementia prodrome" or "pre‐clinical dementia" or "preclinical dementia" or "pre‐clinical ADD" or "preclinical ADD").ti,ab.
28. or/8‐27
29. 7 and 28
30. Magnetic Resonance Imaging/
31. ("magnetic resonance imaging" or MRI*).ti,ab.
32. ("MR imag*" or "MR scan*").ti,ab.
33. ((structural adj2 MR*) or (volum* adj2 MR*) or "sMRI" or "vMRI").ti,ab.
34. or/30‐33
35. 29 and 34		 January 2012: 719
December 2012: 113
July 2016: 1354
June 2017: 164
January 2019: 219
TOTAL: 2569
BIOSIS Citation Index 1926 to present (ISI Web of Science)
(Date of most recent search: 29 January 2019)		 Topic=(Hippocampus OR "hippocampal atrophy" OR (MTL AND atroph*) OR ("medial temporal" AND atroph*) OR ("whole brain" AND atroph*)) AND Topic=(dementia* OR alzheimer* OR BPSD OR lewy OR "cognit* impair*" OR MCI OR VCI OR AD OR ACMI OR ARCD OR SIND OR AAMI OR AACD OR MNCD OR "CDR 0.5") AND Topic=(MRI OR sMRI OR "magnetic resonance" OR "MR scan*" OR vMRI OR "volumetric MR")
Timespan=All Years. Databases=BIOSIS Previews.
Lemmatization=On		 January 2012: 1499
December 2012: 176
July 2016: 482
June 2017: 230
January 2019: 396
TOTAL: 2783
Web of Science Core Collection (1945‐present) (ISI Web of Science)
(Date of most recent search: 29 January 2019)		 Topic=(Hippocampus OR "hippocampal atrophy" OR (MTL AND atroph*) OR ("medial temporal" AND atroph*) OR ("whole brain" AND atroph*)) AND Topic=(dementia* OR alzheimer* OR BPSD OR lewy OR "cognit* impair*" OR MCI OR VCI OR AD OR ACMI OR ARCD OR SIND OR AAMI OR AACD OR MNCD OR "CDR 0.5") AND Topic=(MRI OR sMRI OR "magnetic resonance" OR "MR scan*" OR vMRI OR "volumetric MR")
Timespan=All Years. Databases=BIOSIS Previews.
Lemmatization=On		 January 2012: 2149
December 2012: 266
July 2016: 811
June 2017: 588
January 2019: 925
TOTAL: 4739
LILACS (BIREME)
(Date of most recent search: 29 January 2019)		 RNM OR “magnetic resonance imag$” OR “MR imaging” OR “imagens de ressonância nuclear magnética” OR “MR scan” OR MRI OR sMRI OR “structural MR” OR “ressonância magnética” [Words] and Hippocampus OR hipocampo OR “hippocampal atrophy” OR “temporal lobe” OR “lóbulo temporal” OR MTL [Words] and Demências OR dementia OR dementias OR demência OR Alzheimer OR Alzheimers OR Alzheimer's OR cognitive OR cognitive OR cognitive OR cognition OR “déficit cognitive” OR cognición OR cognição OR Memória OR memory OR Memoria [Words] January 2012: 10
December 2012: 11
July 2016: 0
June 2017: 1
January 2019: 3
TOTAL: 25
TOTAL before de‐duplication 29,335
TOTAL after de‐duplication 24,272
TOTAL after de‐duplication and first‐assessment by CDCIG information specialists Jan 2012: 369
Dec: 2012: 138
Jul 2016: 1098
Jun 2017: 439
Jan 2019: 149
TOTAL: 2193