“…Focusing on the cohort diagnosis and the targeted groups, two studies (Tripoliti et al, 2007;Lebedev et al, 2014) investigated Alzheimer's patients (AD) and healthy controls (HC), four studies (Cabral et al, 2013;Sivapriya et al, 2015;Maggipinto et al, 2017;Son et al, 2017) examined AD, HC and Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), two studies (Gray et al, 2013;Moradi et al, 2015) considered AD, HC, stable MCI (sMCI) and progressive MCI (pMCI, converted to AD), two had sMCI and pMCI (Wang et al, 2016;Ardekani et al, 2017), one had HC and MCI (Lebedeva et al, 2017) and one (Oppedal et al, 2015) had AD, HC and Lewybody dementia (LBD) patients.…”