How late-life depression affects cognition: Neural mechanisms

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 34-38

  Crocco, Elizabeth A ^a   Castro, Kenia ^a   Loewenstein, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Depression; Geriatric

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANXIETY; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; MEMORY DISORDER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARKINSON DISEASE; PSEUDODEMENTIA; SHORT SURVEY;

AGED; BRAIN; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEPRESSION; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 77549086604     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-009-0081-2     Document Type: Short Survey

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