Depression in older adults: The case of an 82-year-old woman with dizziness [16]

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 187-188

  Ahmed, Ali ^a   Yaffe, Mark J ^b   Thornton, Phillip L ^c,d   Kinney, F Cleveland ^e  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SERTRALINE;

AGED; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DIZZINESS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; LETTER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DIZZINESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; SERTRALINE;

EID: 33645121349     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2005.00575_16.x     Document Type: Letter

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