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Table 2 Search strategy: MeSH terms are bolded

From: Cannabinoids in the management of behavioral, psychological, and motor symptoms of neurocognitive disorders: a mixed studies systematic review

Embase (Embase Classic + Embase 1947 to 2017 week 41)

Dementia-related terms

Cannabis-related terms

Dementia

Dementias

Alzheimer disease

Alzheimer’s disease

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Creutzfeldt-Jakob syndrome

Multiinfarct dementia

Dementia, vascular

Huntington chorea

Huntington disease

Diffuse Lewy body disease

Lewy body disease

Parkinson disease

Cannabis

Cannabi*

Medical cannabis

Medical marijuana

Marijuana

Marihuana

Sativex

Dronabinol

Nabiximols

THC

Cannabis sp

Epidiolex

Marinol

Hashish

Hash oil

MEDLINE (Ovid MEDLINE® Epub Ahead of Print, in-process and other non-indexed citations, Ovid MEDLINE ® Daily and Ovid MEDLINE ® 1946 to present)

Dementia-related terms

Cannabis-related terms

Parkinson disease

Parkinson’s disease

Dementia

Dementias

Alzheimer’s disease

Creutzfeldt-Jakob syndrome

Creutzfeldt-Jakob syndrome

Dementia, vascular

Dementia, vascular

Huntington disease

Huntington’s disease

Lewy body disease

Medical marijuana

Cannabis

Cannabi*

Marijuana

Marihuana

Sativex

Nabiximols

Dronabinol

THC

Cannabis sp

Nabilone

Epidiolex

IPA: (International Pharmaceutical Abstracts 1970 to September 2017)

Dementia-related terms

Cannabis-related terms

Dementia

Alzheimer’s disease

Creutzfedlt-Jakob syndrome

Dementia, vascular

Huntington disease

Lewy body disease

Parkinson disease

medical marijuana

cannabi*

Sativex

Marihuana

Marijuana

THC

Cannabis sp

Nabilone

Dronabinol

Epidiolex

Nabiximols

FDA: (Food and Drug Administration Clinical Trials Database, inception through August 2021)

Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia

Neuropsychiatric symptoms

Cann*

Cannabinoid

Cannabis

Marijuana

  1. *signifies a truncation command in the search strategy permitting any term that has the text preceding the asterix