Relationship between progression of brain white matter changes and late-life depression: 3-Year results from the LADIS study

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 201, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 40-45

  Firbank, Michael J ^a   Teodorczuk, Andrew ^a   Van Der Flier, Wiesje M ^b   Gouw, Alida A ^b   Wallin, Anders ^c   Erkinjuntti, Timo ^d   Inzitari, Domenico ^e   Wahlund, Lars Olof ^f   Pantoni, Leonardo ^e   Poggesi, Anna ^e   Pracucci, Giovanni ^e   Langhorne, Peter ^a   O'Brien, John T ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^f KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; LATE LIFE DEPRESSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN DISEASES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOARAIOSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84863583188     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: 14721465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.111.098897     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Debette S, Seshadri S, Beiser A, Au R, Himali JJ, Palumbo C, et al. Midlife vascular risk factor exposure accelerates structural brain aging and cognitive decline. Neurology 2011; 77: 461-8.
2. Godin O, Tzourio C, Maillard P, Mazoyer B, Dufouil C. Antihypertensive treatment and change in blood pressure are associated with the progression of white matter lesion volumes: the three-city (3D)-Dijon magnetic resonance imaging study. Circulation 2008; 123: 266-73.
3. van Dijk EJ, Prins ND, Vrooman HA, Hofman A, Koudstaal PJ, Breteler MMB. Progression of cerebral small vessel disease in relation to risk factors and cognitive consequences: Rotterdam scan study. Stroke 2008; 39: 2712-9.
4. de Groot JC, de Leeuw FE, Oudkerk M, Hofman A, Jolles J, Breteler MMB. Cerebral white matter lesions and depressive symptoms in elderly adults. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2000; 57: 1071-6.
5. O'Brien J, Desmond P, Ames D, Schweitzer I, Harrigan S, Tress B. A magnetic resonance imaging study of white matter lesions in depression and Alzheimer's disease. Br J Psychiatry 1996; 168: 477-85. (Pubitemid 26171857)
6. O'Brien JT, Firbank MJ, Krishnan MS, van Straaten ECW, van der Flier WM, Petrovic K, et al. White matter hyperintensities rather than lacunar infarcts are associated with depressive symptoms in older people: the LADIS study. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2006; 14: 834-41. (Pubitemid 44556477)
7. Godin O, Dufouil C, Maillard P, Delcroix N, Mazoyer B, Crivello F, et al. White matter lesions as a predictor of depression in the elderly: the 3C-Dijon study. Biol Psychiatry 2008; 63: 663-9. (Pubitemid 351329279)
8. Teodorczuk A, O'Brien JT, Firbank MJ, Pantoni L, Poggesi A, Erkinjuntti T, et al. White matter changes and late-life depressive symptoms. Longitudinal study. Br J Psychiatry 2007; 191: 212-7. (Pubitemid 47435050)
9. O'Brien J, Ames D, Chiu E, Schweitzer I, Desmond P, Tress B. Severe deep white matter lesions and outcome in elderly patients with major depressive disorder: follow up study. BMJ 1998; 317: 982-4. (Pubitemid 28457258)
10. Heiden A, Kettenbach J, Fischer P, Schein B, Ba-Ssalamah A, Frey R, et al. White matter hyperintensities and chronicity of depression. J Psychiatr Res 2005; 39: 285-93. (Pubitemid 40267710)
11. Taylor WD, Steffens DC, MacFall JR, McQuoid DR, Payne ME, Provenzale JM, et al. White matter hyperintensity progression and late-life depression outcomes. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2003; 60: 1090-6. (Pubitemid 37429648)
12. Hickie I, Scott E, Wilhelm K, Brodaty H. Subcortical hyperintensities on magnetic resonance imaging in patients with severe depression - a longitudinal evaluation. Biol Psychiatry 1997; 42: 367-74. (Pubitemid 27380971)
13. Thomas AJ, Kalaria RN, O'Brien JT. Depression and vascular disease: what is the relationship? J Affect Disord 2004; 79: 81-95. (Pubitemid 38340532)
14. Versluis CE, van der Mast, RC, van Buchem MA, Bollen E, Blauw GJ, Eekhof JAH, et al. Progression of cerebral white matter lesions is not associated with development of depressive symptoms in elderly subjects at risk of cardiovascular disease. The PROSPER study. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 2006; 21: 375-81.
15. Teodorczuk A, Firbank MJ, Pantoni L, Poggesi A, Erkinjuntti T, Wallin A, et al. Relationship between baseline white matter changes and development of late life depressive symptoms: 3 year results from the LADIS study. Psychol Med 2010; 40: 603-10.
16. Pantoni L, Basile AM, Pracucci G, Asplund K, Bogousslavsky J, Chabriat H, et al. Impact of age-related cerebral white matter changes on the transition to disability - the LADIS study: rationale, design and methodology. Neuroepidemiology 2005; 24: 51-62. (Pubitemid 39664108)
17. Lawton MP, Brody EM. Assessment of older people: self-maintaining and instrumental activities of daily living. Gerontologist 1969; 9: 179-86.
18. Fazekas F, Chawluk JB, Alavi A, Hurtig HI, Zimmerman RA. MR signal abnormalities at 1.5 T in Alzheimer's dementia and normal aging. Am J Neuroradiol 1987; 8: 421-6. (Pubitemid 17075726)
19. Van Straaten EC, Fazekas F, Rostrup E, Scheltens P, Schmidt R, Pantoni L, et al. Impact of white matter hyperintensities scoring method on correlations with clinical data: the LADIS study. Stroke 2006; 37: 836-40. (Pubitemid 43731918)
20. Gouw AA, van der Flier WM, Fazekas F, van Straaten ECW, Pantoni L, Poggesi A, et al. Progression of white matter hyperintensities and incidence of new lacunes over a 3 year period. Stroke 2008; 29: 1414-20.
21. Yesavage JA. Geriatric Depression Scale. Psychopharmacol Bull 1988; 24: 709-11.
22. Folstein MF, Folstein SE, McHugh PR. A practical method for grading the cognitive state of patients for the clinician. J Psychiatr Res 1975; 12: 189-98.
23. Inzitari D, Simoni M, Pracucci G, Poggesi A, Basile AM, Chabriat H, et al. Risk of rapid global functional decline in elderly patients with severe cerebral age-related white matter changes - the LADIS study. Arch Intern Med 2007; 167: 81-8. (Pubitemid 46072411)
24. Herrmann LL, Le Masurier M, Ebmeier KP. White matter hyperintensities in late life depression: a systematic review. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2008; 79: 619-24. (Pubitemid 351829430)
25. Alexopoulos GS, Meyers BS, Young RC, Campbell S, Silbersweig D, Charlson M. 'Vascular depression' hypothesis. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1997; 54: 915-22. (Pubitemid 128719702)
26. Schmidt R, Enzinger C, Ropele S, Schmidt H, Fazekas F. Progression of cerebral white matter lesions: 6 year results of the Austrian stroke prevention study. Lancet 2003; 361: 2046-8. (Pubitemid 36695049)
27. Boden JM, Fergusson DM. Alcohol and depression. Addiction 2011; 106: 906-14.
28. Verdelho A, Madureira S, Moleiro C, Ferro JM, Santos CO, Erkinjuntti T, et al. White matter changes and diabetes predict cognitive decline in the elderly: the LADIS study. Neurology 2010; 75: 160-7.
29. Inzitari D, Pracucci G, Poggesi A, Carlucci G, Barkhof F, Chabriat H, et al. Changes in white matter as determinant of global functional decline in older independent outpatients: three year follow-up of LADIS (leukoaraiosis and disability) study cohort. BMJ 2009; 339: b2477.
30. Gouw AA, van der Flier WM, van Straaten ECW, Pantoni L, Bastos-Leite AJ, Inzitari D, et al. Reliability and sensitivity of visual scales versus volumetry for evaluating white matter hyperintensity progression. Cerebrovasc Dis 2008; 25: 247-53. (Pubitemid 351450428)
31. American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th edn) (DSM-IV). APA, 1994.
32. Dufouil C, Chalmers J, Coskun O, Besançon V, Bousser M-G, Guillon P, et al. Effects of blood pressure lowering on cerebral white matter hyperintensities in patients with stroke: the PROGRESS (Peridopril Protection Against Recurrent Stroke Study) magnetic resonance imaging substudy. Circulation 2005; 112: 1644-50. (Pubitemid 41324527)
33. Firbank MJ, Wiseman RM, Burton EJ, Saxby BK, O'Brien JT, Ford GA. Brain atrophy and white matter hyperintensity change in older adults and relationship to blood pressure. J Neurol 2007; 254: 713-21. (Pubitemid 47012443)