Could Self-Consciousness Be Enhanced in Alzheimer’s Disease? An Approach from Emotional Sensorial Stimulation

[EN] 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 belief...

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Autores: Arroyo Anlló, Eva María, Chamorro Sánchez, Jorge, Gil, Roger
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Salamanca (USAL)
Repositorio:GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamanca
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Palabra clave:Alzheimer’s disease
Dementia
Emotion
Healing garden
Music
neurodegenerative disease
Non-pharmacological therapy
Odor
Self-consciousness
Sensorial stimulation
Smell
Taste
Neuropsychology
3205.07 Neurología
neuropsicología
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spelling Could Self-Consciousness Be Enhanced in Alzheimer’s Disease? An Approach from Emotional Sensorial StimulationArroyo Anlló, Eva MaríaChamorro Sánchez, JorgeGil, RogerAlzheimer’s diseaseDementiaEmotionHealing gardenMusicneurodegenerative diseaseNon-pharmacological therapyOdorSelf-consciousnessSensorial stimulationSmellTasteNeuropsychology3205.07 Neurologíaneuropsicología[EN] 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.202420242020info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplicatio/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10366/155015reponame:GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamancainstname:Universidad de Salamanca (USAL)InglésAttribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:gredos.usal.es:10366/1550152026-06-07T06:28:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Could Self-Consciousness Be Enhanced in Alzheimer’s Disease? An Approach from Emotional Sensorial Stimulation
title Could Self-Consciousness Be Enhanced in Alzheimer’s Disease? An Approach from Emotional Sensorial Stimulation
spellingShingle Could Self-Consciousness Be Enhanced in Alzheimer’s Disease? An Approach from Emotional Sensorial Stimulation
Arroyo Anlló, Eva María
Alzheimer’s disease
Dementia
Emotion
Healing garden
Music
neurodegenerative disease
Non-pharmacological therapy
Odor
Self-consciousness
Sensorial stimulation
Smell
Taste
Neuropsychology
3205.07 Neurología
neuropsicología
title_short Could Self-Consciousness Be Enhanced in Alzheimer’s Disease? An Approach from Emotional Sensorial Stimulation
title_full Could Self-Consciousness Be Enhanced in Alzheimer’s Disease? An Approach from Emotional Sensorial Stimulation
title_fullStr Could Self-Consciousness Be Enhanced in Alzheimer’s Disease? An Approach from Emotional Sensorial Stimulation
title_full_unstemmed Could Self-Consciousness Be Enhanced in Alzheimer’s Disease? An Approach from Emotional Sensorial Stimulation
title_sort Could Self-Consciousness Be Enhanced in Alzheimer’s Disease? An Approach from Emotional Sensorial Stimulation
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Arroyo Anlló, Eva María
Chamorro Sánchez, Jorge
Gil, Roger
author Arroyo Anlló, Eva María
author_facet Arroyo Anlló, Eva María
Chamorro Sánchez, Jorge
Gil, Roger
author_role author
author2 Chamorro Sánchez, Jorge
Gil, Roger
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author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Alzheimer’s disease
Dementia
Emotion
Healing garden
Music
neurodegenerative disease
Non-pharmacological therapy
Odor
Self-consciousness
Sensorial stimulation
Smell
Taste
Neuropsychology
3205.07 Neurología
neuropsicología
topic Alzheimer’s disease
Dementia
Emotion
Healing garden
Music
neurodegenerative disease
Non-pharmacological therapy
Odor
Self-consciousness
Sensorial stimulation
Smell
Taste
Neuropsychology
3205.07 Neurología
neuropsicología
description [EN] 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.
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