Michael A Rapp

..The findings summarized in this review underline the central importance of depressive disorders for the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders in later life...

..The authors tested the hypothesis that decline in cognitive function over time is more pronounced in patients with dementia with comorbid depression, when compared with patients with dementia without depression history...

..The aim of this study was to test whether the severity and pharmacotherapy differed in patients treated by outpatient clinics at psychiatric hospitals, as compared to primary care specialists...

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..This study is concerned with the depression-mortality association in old and very old age...

..The authors tested the hypothesis that neuritic plaques and neurofibrillary tangles are more pronounced in the brains of patients with AD with comorbid depression as compared with patients with AD without depression...

..Although there is increasing evidence that major depression may interact with neuropathological processes in AD, there have been no studies of neuropathological changes in AD as a function of history of major depression...

..We examined the association between intra-individual variability in intellectual performance and risk for schizophrenia in individuals with normal IQ...

..The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between dementia severity, age, gender, and prescription of psychotropics, and syndromes of agitation and depression in a sample of nursing home residents with dementia...

..However, little is known about the relationship of performance in specific cognitive domains to subsequent overall decline...

..International guidelines recommend syndrome-specific pharmacotherapy. We studied the question whether drug-prescribing practices are, in fact, syndrome-specific...

..The development of a brief intervention for nursing home residents combining physical activation and reminiscence therapy in order to reactivating apathic residents and increasing their quality of life will be described...

..The purpose of this study was to explore differences in neuropsychological function, symptoms, and cardiovascular comorbidity between patients with late-onset and recurrent geriatric major depression...

..The authors examined the association between neuropsychological tests of executive functioning and episodic memory and functional disability in nursing home residents versus community-dwelling older adults...

..However, it is not clear whether this below-average premorbid intelligence is stable or progressive...

..After treating the patient with levodopa and clozapine, these symptoms remitted...

..g., postural control). This study investigated whether such models also hold for pathologic cognitive aging...

..Recent evidence suggests that cross-domain variability in cognition may be related to subsequent cognitive decline beyond mean performance levels in cognitive tasks...

..The influence of culture-specific factors on trauma-focussed psychotherapy is being discussed...

..Following theoretical models of neuropsychological processes before AD onset, the authors examined the predictive value of attention and executive function in the preclinical phase of AD in old age...

..However, the neurobiological correlates of post-ACS depressive symptoms have not yet been studied...

..CONCLUSION: Examining the predictive ability of these key distinctions of depression for acute coronary syndrome recurrence would be of benefit to future research in this field...

..Age-related decline in cognitive speed has been associated with prefrontal dopamine D1 receptor availability, but the contribution of presynaptic dopamine and noradrenaline innervation to age-related changes in cognition is unknown...

..In the following paper, we consider the unique aspects of trauma-focused psychotherapy in patients with a history of migration. We discuss a variety of culture-specific factors with the help of two case histories...