Prefrontal white matter lesions and prefrontal task impersistence in depressed and nondepressed elders

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2135-2142

  Potter, Guy G ^a   Blackwell, Andrew D ^b,c   McQuoid, Douglas R ^a   Payne, Martha E ^a   Steffens, David C ^a   Sahakian, Barbara J ^b,c   Welsh Bohmer, Kathleen A ^a   Krishnan, K R Ranga ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Depression; Elderly; Neuropsychological testing; Prefrontal cortex; Stockings of Cambridge; White matter lesions

Indexed keywords

AMFEBUTAMONE; METHYLPHENIDATE; MIRTAZAPINE; NORTRIPTYLINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TRANYLCYPROMINE; VENLAFAXINE;

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WHITE MATTER;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 34548674027     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.npp.1301339     Document Type: Article

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