Structural and functional abnormalities in elderly patients clinically recovered from early- and late-onset depression

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 34-46

  Dahabra, Sylvia ^a   Ashton, C Heather ^a   Bahrainian, Majid ^a   Britton, Peter G ^a   Ferrier, I Nicol ^a   McAllister, Victor A ^b   Marsh, V Richard ^a   Moore, P Brian ^c  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c SOUTH TYNESIDE DISTRICT HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive performance; Early onset depression; Elderly depression; Electroencephalography; Evoked potentials; Late onset depression; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; SLOW BRAIN WAVE;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 0032124829     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(98)00003-1     Document Type: Article

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