Regional Gray Matter Changes Are Associated with Cognitive Deficits in Remitted Geriatric Depression: An Optimized Voxel-Based Morphometry Study

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 541-544

  Yuan, Yonggui ^a,b   Zhu, Wanlin ^c,d   Zhang, Zhijun ^a   Bai, Feng ^a   Yu, Hui ^a   Shi, Yongmei ^a   Qian, Yun ^a   Liu, Wen ^b   Jiang, Tianzi ^d   You, Jiayong ^b   Liu, Zhening ^e  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b THE AFFILIATED BRAIN HOSPITAL OF NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^e CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cognitive deficit; gray matter; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); remitted geriatric depression; voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REMISSION; REMITTED GERIATRIC DEPRESSION; REY AUDITORY VERBAL LEARNING TEST;

AGED; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REMISSION INDUCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 49749118646     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2008.04.032     Document Type: Article

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