Dual-task performance in depressed geriatric patients

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 139-151

  Nebes, Robert D ^b   Butters, Meryl A ^a   Houck, Patricia R ^a   Zmuda, Michelle D ^a   Aizenstein, Howard ^a   Pollock, Bruce G ^a   Mulsant, Benoit H ^a   Reynolds III, Charles F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Backward digit span; Executive processes; Remission; Visual tracking

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COORDINATION; DEPRESSION; EYE TRACKING; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

AGED; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; NORTRIPTYLINE; PAROXETINE; REMISSION INDUCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0035367396     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1781(01)00244-X     Document Type: Article

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