The effect of age on frontal lobe related cognitive functions of unmedicated depressed patients

Journal of Affective Disorders

Volumn 129, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 342-347

  Braw, Yoram ^a,b   Aviram, Shai ^a   Bloch, Yuval ^a   Levkovitz, Yechiel ^a,c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Cognition; Depression; Executive functions; Higher order cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAMBRIDGE NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST AUTOMATED BATTERY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENDER; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79851516279     PISSN: 01650327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2010.07.032     Document Type: Article

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