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Table 5.

Other treatments

Study	Subjects	Design	Target symptom	Outcome measures	Results
(Van Someren, Scherder, and Swaab 1998, 114- 118)	19 nursing home residents with early AD	Randomized clinical trial with TENS	Circadian rhythm abnormalities	Actigraphy	Improvement in rest activity rhythm.
(Shinno et al. 2008, 881–885)	5 outpatient clinic visitors	Prospective interventional study with YI gan san (Japanese herb)	Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia.	MMSE, PSG and NPI	Improvement in sleep and symptom severity per NPI