Depression and anxiety in late life: Diagnostic insights and therapeutic options

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 527-545

  Kastenschmidt, Erin K ^a   Kennedy, Gary J ^a  

^a MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

anxiety; depression; geriatric; psychotherapy

Indexed keywords

AMFEBUTAMONE; ARIPIPRAZOLE; BUSPIRONE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CITALOPRAM; DESIPRAMINE; DESVENLAFAXINE; DULOXETINE; ESCITALOPRAM; FLUOXETINE; FLUOXETINE PLUS OLANZAPINE; LAMOTRIGINE; LIOTHYRONINE; LITHIUM CARBONATE; METHYLPHENIDATE; MIRTAZAPINE; MODAFINIL; NORTRIPTYLINE; OLANZAPINE; PAROXETINE; QUETIAPINE; RISPERIDONE; SELEGILINE; SERTRALINE; TRANYLCYPROMINE; TRAZODONE; VALPROATE SEMISODIUM; VENLAFAXINE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANHEDONIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BEDTIME DOSAGE; BIPOLAR DEPRESSION; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BIPOLAR I DISORDER; BIPOLAR II DISORDER; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIZZINESS; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; EXERCISE; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; FALLING; FAMILY; FRAIL ELDERLY; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GLAUCOMA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCONTINENCE; INSOMNIA; LATE LIFE DEPRESSION; LIVER TOXICITY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MANIA; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MIXED MANIA AND DEPRESSION; MOOD DISORDER; MORNING DOSAGE; NAUSEA; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC; PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE 9; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PROSTATE DISEASE; PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; SCREENING TEST; SEROTONIN SYNDROME; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SUICIDE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TREMOR; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; VOMITING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING;

EID: 79960220495     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: 19317581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/msj.20266     Document Type: Article

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