{"id":162104,"date":"2023-04-13T10:22:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T15:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/dementia-can-phototherapy-treatments-improve-cognitive-function"},"modified":"2023-04-13T10:22:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T15:22:39","slug":"dementia-can-phototherapy-treatments-improve-cognitive-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/dementia-can-phototherapy-treatments-improve-cognitive-function","title":{"rendered":"Dementia: Can phototherapy treatments improve cognitive function?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dementia-can-phototherapy-treatments-improve-cognitive-function.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Upon analysis, researchers found the phototherapy treatments significantly improved MMSE scores in participants with dementia.<\/p>\n<p>The second focus of the study was to see how phototherapy interventions affected the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSDs) \u2014 such as depression and agitation \u2014 and sleep. The researchers stated there were no significant differences in BPSDs and sleep between the phototherapy and control groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon analysis, researchers found the phototherapy treatments significantly improved MMSE scores in participants with dementia. The second focus of the study was to see how phototherapy interventions affected the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSDs) \u2014 such as depression and agitation \u2014 and sleep. The researchers stated there were no significant differences in BPSDs [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}