Late-onset depression with mild cognitive deficits: Electrophysiological evidences for a preclinical dementia syndrome

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 18, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 271-277

  Brassen, Stefanie ^a,c   Braus, Dieter F ^a   Weber Fahr, Wolfgang ^a   Tost, Heike ^b   Moritz, Steffen ^a   Adler, Georg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coherence; Electroencephalography; Late onset depression; Mild cognitive impairment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; POPULATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; PREVALENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 5644247387     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000080028     Document Type: Article

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