Cognitive improvement following treatment in late-life depression: Relationship to vascular risk and age of onset

American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 682-690

  Barch, Deanna M ^a   D'Angelo, Gina ^a   Pieper, Carl ^b   Wilkins, Consuelo H ^a   Welsh Bohmer, Kathleen ^b   Taylor, Warren ^b   Garcia, Keith S ^a   Gersing, Kenneth ^b   Doraiswamy, P Murali ^b   Sheline, Yvette I ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; treatment; vascular depression; white matter Received

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MONTGOMERY ASBERG DEPRESSION RATING SCALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; ONSET AGE; PREDICTION; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WHITE MATTER; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84864277628     PISSN: 10647481     EISSN: 15457214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JGP.0b013e318246b6cb     Document Type: Article

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