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Mashup Score: 0Late-Life Depression, Antidepressant Treatment, and Cognition: The Short Haul and the Long Haul - 10 hour(s) ago
Late-life depression (LLD) refers to major depression that occurs in older adults regardless of age at onset of the first depressive episode. Thus, LLD includes both early-onset cases, related to higher familial risk and childhood adversity, and late-onset cases, related to later life stressors and apathy. Geriatric psychiatrists and other clinicians caring for older depressed adults have long appreciated that LLD is a complex and quintessentially biopsychosocial disorder. Risks of developing depression
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TUESDAY, March 26, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Six out of every 10 stroke survivors wind up struggling with depression later in their lives, a new study says.That
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Mashup Score: 2Cognitive Outcomes After Antidepressant Pharmacotherapy for Late-Life Depression: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis - 10 day(s) ago
Objective: The authors evaluated whether treatment of late-life depression (LLD) with antidepressants leads to changes in cognitive function. Methods: A systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies of antidepressant pharmacotherapy for adults age 50 or older (or mean age of 65 or older) with LLD was conducted. MEDLINE, EMBASE, and PsycInfo were searched through December 31, 2022. The primary outcome was a change on cognitive test scores from baseline to after treatment. Secondary outcomes included the effects of specific medications and the associations between changes in depressive symptoms and cognitive test scores. Participants with bipolar disorder, psychotic depression, dementia, or neurological disease were excluded. Findings from all eligible studies were synthesized at a descriptive level, and a random-effects model was used to pool the results for meta-analysis. Results: Twenty-two studies were included. Thirteen of 19 studies showed an improvement on at least on
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Lindsey Venesky, PhD, discussed how a mental fitness vocal biomarker tool could identify mental health symptoms people might not even be aware of through their voice.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Results presented here showed patients with depression undergoing total knee arthroplasty experienced an increased risk of medical and surgical complications, readmissions and reoperations.“Some possible explanations that we have been exploring is that there have been some studies that have shown a link between antidepressants and osteoporosis, as well as links between
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Mashup Score: 23Smartphone app uses AI to detect depression from facial cues - 1 month(s) ago
Dartmouth researchers report they have developed the first smartphone application that uses artificial intelligence paired with facial-image processing software to reliably detect the onset of depression …
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Mashup Score: 20Improving social symptoms of depression with a common anesthetic - 1 month(s) ago
In a recent study published in Molecular Psychiatry, researchers from Osaka University have used a mouse model of depression to reveal that one form of ketamine (a common anesthetic) in low doses can …
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A secondary analysis found a brain scan with an AI algorithm predicted within a week 1/3 of patients would respond to sertraline and 2/3 would not.
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A new study found engaging the amygdala can help with memory recall for individuals with depression—and familiar scents helped more than word cues. Memories with odor cues were more arousing and vivid.
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Incidence extremely high in the first 3 days
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In an AJP editorial, David Steffens @UConnResearch discusses what can be gleaned from a review of studies examining antidepressant pharmacotherapy for older adults with late-life #depression https://t.co/H6QSqq4NAf https://t.co/GRdJwAAHG9