Depression, hippocampal volume changes, and cognitive decline in a clinical sample of older depressed outpatients and non-depressed controls

Aging and Mental Health

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 753-762

  Sawyer, Kathryn ^a   Corsentino, Elizabeth ^a   Sachs Ericsson, Natalie ^a   Steffens, David C ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Glucocorticoid cascade hypothesis; Major depressive disorder; Neuroimaging; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84863487958     PISSN: 13607863     EISSN: 13646915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13607863.2012.678478     Document Type: Article

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