Premorbid History of Major Depression and the Depressive Syndrome of Alzheimer's Disease.
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry
; 4(1): 85-90, 1996.
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To test the hypothesis that primary degenerative dementia of the Alzheimer type (PDD-AT) may increase the likelihood of expression of a lifetime vulnerability to the development of depression, the authors compared the premorbid rates of major depression in psychiatric inpatients with dementia, with or without a concurrent syndrome of depression. A premorbid history of major depression was four times more common in patients with the depressive syndrome of PDD-AT than in PDD-AT patients without depression. The authors discuss the significance of these findings for pathophysiologic models and estimates of comorbidity of depression in PDD-AT.
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MEDLINE
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry
Assunto da revista:
GERIATRIA
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PSIQUIATRIA
Ano de publicação:
1996
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de publicação:
Reino Unido