Depressive symptoms increase the likelihood of cognitive impairment in elderly people with subclinical Alzheimer pathology

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 46-50

  Milwain, Elizabeth J ^a   Nagy, Zsuzsanna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Cognition; Depression

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELDERLY CARE; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HUMAN; NEOCORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; NEOCORTEX; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; STATISTICS;

EID: 10844296492     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000080971     Document Type: Article

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