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Neuropsychological deficits among patients with late-onset minor and major depressionVirginia Elderkin-Thompson
Neuropsychiatric Research Institute and Hospital, University of California, 760 Westwood Plaza C8 688, Los Angeles, CA 90024 1759, USA
Arch Clin Neuropsychol 18:529-49. 2003..This decline in cognitive performance parallels a similar trend observed in neuroanatomical studies in which the volume of the frontal and temporal lobes decrease with increasing severity of depression...
Executive function and MRI prefrontal volumes among healthy older adultsVirginia Elderkin-Thompson
Geriatric Division, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024 1759, USA
Neuropsychology 22:626-37. 2008..In conclusion, some executive abilities correlate with volumes of specific prefrontal subregions despite a robust neural interconnectedness between the subregions...- Daily functioning and prefrontal brain morphology in healthy and depressed community-dwelling elderlyVirginia Elderkin-Thompson
Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Geriatric Division, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 16:633-42. 2008..This study examined relationships between self-reported levels of general functioning and the combined volume of three integrated prefrontal structures associated with self-perception and emotion... 
Biophysical correlates of cognition among depressed and nondepressed type 2 diabetic patientsVirginia Elderkin-Thompson
Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Geriatric Division, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Diabetes Care 32:48-50. 2009..Caudate magnetization transfer (MT) ratios have indicated an abnormality in the macromolecular protein pool of diabetic patients. This study examined the relationship between MT ratios of the caudate and cognitive performance...- Executive dysfunction and memory in older patients with major and minor depressionVirginia Elderkin-Thompson
UCLA Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Geriatric Division, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Arch Clin Neuropsychol 22:261-70. 2007..In conclusion, the verbal memory deficits typically attributed to late-life depression may result from impaired executive functioning during the learning phase of the recall task... - Executive dysfunction and memory in older patients with major and minor depressionVirginia Elderkin-Thompson
UCLA Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Geriatric Division, CA 90024 1759, USA
Arch Clin Neuropsychol 21:669-76. 2006..In conclusion, the verbal memory deficits typically attributed to late-life depression may result from impaired executive functioning during the learning phase of the recall task... - Validity of the Boston qualitative scoring system for the Rey-Osterrieth complex figure among depressed elderly patientsVirginia Elderkin-Thompson
Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, UCLA, 760 Westwooed Plaza C8 688, Los Angeles, CA 90024 1759, USA
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 26:598-607. 2004..No differences emerged between the two scoring methods in their efficiency for predicting depression... - Brain metabolites and cognitive function among older depressed and healthy individuals using 2D MR spectroscopyVirginia Elderkin-Thompson
UCLA Neuropsychiatric Research Institute and Hospital, Los Angeles, CA 90024 1759, USA
Neuropsychopharmacology 29:2251-7. 2004.... - Neurocognitive profiles in elderly patients with frontotemporal degeneration or major depressive disorderVirginia Elderkin-Thompson
Neuropsychiatric Research Institute Hospital, Department of Psychiatry Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90024 1759, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 10:753-71. 2004.... - Executive dysfunction and visuospatial ability among depressed elders in a community settingVirginia Elderkin-Thompson
Neuropsychiatric Research Institute and Hospital, University of California, 760 Westwood Plaza, C8 688, Los Angeles, CA 90024 1759, USA
Arch Clin Neuropsychol 19:597-611. 2004..This result is consistent with the theory that dysfunction of the prefrontal cortex is a critical feature of late-life depression... - Prefrontal brain morphology and executive function in healthy and depressed elderlyVirginia Elderkin-Thompson
Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Geriatric Division, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024 1759, USA
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 24:459-68. 2009.... - Cognitive function in adults with type 2 diabetes and major depressionKecia Watari
Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, UCLA Semel Institute and Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital, 760 Westwood Plaza, 37 372A, Los Angeles, CA 90024 1759, United States
Arch Clin Neuropsychol 21:787-96. 2006..These findings suggest that depression negatively impacts cognitive performance among adults with type 2 diabetes, which may have implications for neural circuitry underlying cognitive and mood changes in diabetic patients... - Neuroanatomical correlates of executive functioning in depressed adults with type 2 diabetesKecia Watari
Department of Neurology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1520 San Pablo Street, Suite 3000, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 30:389-97. 2008.... - Prefrontal myo-inositol concentration and visuospatial functioning among diabetic depressed patientsEbrahim Haroon
Semel Institute of Neurosciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024 1759, USA
Psychiatry Res 171:10-9. 2009..Progressive weakening of this association across both diabetic groups might be related to progressive changes in neural activity that underlies visuospatial function... - Explicit and implicit memory in late-life depressionVirginia Elderkin-Thompson
Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024 1759, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 19:249-55. 2011..This study examined cognition in patients with late-life depression with a focus on the assessment of the extent and type of memory loss among elderly depressed patients... - Two-dimensional MR spectroscopy of minimal hepatic encephalopathy and neuropsychological correlates in vivoAparna Singhal
Department of Radiological Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095 1721, USA
J Magn Reson Imaging 32:35-43. 2010.... - Voxel-based diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging evaluation of low-grade hepatic encephalopathyRajesh Kumar
Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095 1721, USA
J Magn Reson Imaging 27:1061-8. 2008..To quantify the changes in brain water diffusivity in hepatic encephalopathy (HE) associated with cirrhosis using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and to correlate with neuropsychological (NP) scores... - Mapping callosal morphology in early- and late-onset elderly depression: an index of distinct changes in cortical connectivityMartina Ballmaier
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charite University Medicine, Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Neuropsychopharmacology 33:1528-36. 2008..Patients with a late onset of depression may be at higher risk of illness progression and eventually dementia conversion than early-onset depression, with potentially important implications for research and therapy... - Hippocampal morphology and distinguishing late-onset from early-onset elderly depressionMartina Ballmaier
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charite University Medicine, Campus Mitte, Berlin
Am J Psychiatry 165:229-37. 2008..This study used three-dimensional mapping techniques to identify regional hippocampal abnormalities in early- and late-onset depression. Neuropsychological correlates of hippocampal morphology were also investigated...