Daily functioning and prefrontal brain morphology in healthy and depressed community-dwelling elderly

American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 633-642

  Elderkin Thompson, Virginia ^a   Ballmaier, Martina ^b   Hellemann, Gerhard ^a   Pham, Daniel ^a   Lavretsky, Helen ^a   Kumar, Anand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulated; Atrophy; Daily functioning; Elderly; Geriatric; Gyrus rectus; Health attitude; Limbic; MRI; Orbitofrontal; Prefrontal

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; ENERGY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; GRAY MATTER; GYRUS RECTUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; ORBITAL CORTEX; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SELF REPORT; SHORT FORM 36; WELLBEING; WHITE MATTER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 54549103332     PISSN: 10647481     EISSN: 15457214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JGP.0b013e3181794629     Document Type: Article

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