Thomas W Meeks

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Affiliation: University of California
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Medications in long-term care: when less is more
    Thomas W Meeks
    Department of Psychiatry, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, University of California, La Jolla, San Diego, CA 92093, USA
    Clin Geriatr Med 27:171-91. 2011
  2. ncbi The neurobiology of neuropsychiatric syndromes in dementia
    Thomas W Meeks
    Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, and Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, California 92161, USA
    Curr Opin Psychiatry 19:581-6. 2006
  3. ncbi Complementary and alternative treatments for late-life depression, anxiety, and sleep disturbance: a review of randomized controlled trials
    Thomas W Meeks
    Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, USA
    J Clin Psychiatry 68:1461-71. 2007
  4. ncbi Chronic pain and depression among geriatric psychiatry inpatients
    Thomas W Meeks
    Department of Psychiatry, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
    Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 23:637-42. 2008
  5. ncbi Emotional and cognitive health correlates of leisure activities in older Latino and Caucasian women
    Angelica P Herrera
    Department of Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, San Diego, USA
    Psychol Health Med 16:661-74. 2011
  6. ncbi New wine in old bottle: late-life psychosis
    Alana Iglewicz
    Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0664, La Jolla, San Diego, CA 92093, USA
    Psychiatr Clin North Am 34:295-318, vii. 2011
  7. ncbi A tune in "a minor" can "b major": a review of epidemiology, illness course, and public health implications of subthreshold depression in older adults
    Thomas W Meeks
    Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, UCSD, United States
    J Affect Disord 129:126-42. 2011
  8. ncbi Subthreshold depression and successful aging in older women
    Ipsit V Vahia
    Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
    Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 18:212-20. 2010
  9. ncbi Research agenda for DSM-V: diagnostic categories and criteria for neuropsychiatric syndromes in dementia
    Dilip V Jeste
    Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, CA 92161, USA
    J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol 19:160-71. 2006
  10. ncbi Expert consensus on characteristics of wisdom: a Delphi method study
    Dilip V Jeste
    Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging, and Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
    Gerontologist 50:668-80. 2010

Detail Information

Publications12

  1. ncbi Medications in long-term care: when less is more
    Thomas W Meeks
    Department of Psychiatry, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, University of California, La Jolla, San Diego, CA 92093, USA
    Clin Geriatr Med 27:171-91. 2011
    ....
  2. ncbi The neurobiology of neuropsychiatric syndromes in dementia
    Thomas W Meeks
    Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, and Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, California 92161, USA
    Curr Opin Psychiatry 19:581-6. 2006
    ..Neuropsychiatric disturbances in dementia are prevalent, and research is uncovering their neurobiological correlates...
  3. ncbi Complementary and alternative treatments for late-life depression, anxiety, and sleep disturbance: a review of randomized controlled trials
    Thomas W Meeks
    Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, USA
    J Clin Psychiatry 68:1461-71. 2007
    ..We reviewed randomized controlled trials of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) treatments for depression, anxiety, and sleep disturbance in nondemented older adults...
  4. ncbi Chronic pain and depression among geriatric psychiatry inpatients
    Thomas W Meeks
    Department of Psychiatry, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
    Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 23:637-42. 2008
    ..We examined whether chronic pain among depressed geriatric inpatients was associated with several clinical variables-comorbid psychiatric and medical diagnoses, length of hospitalization, suicidal ideation, and sleep duration...
  5. ncbi Emotional and cognitive health correlates of leisure activities in older Latino and Caucasian women
    Angelica P Herrera
    Department of Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, San Diego, USA
    Psychol Health Med 16:661-74. 2011
    ..Latino and Caucasian women participate in different patterns of leisure activities. Additionally, ethnicity significantly affects the relationship between leisure activities and both emotional and cognitive health...
  6. ncbi New wine in old bottle: late-life psychosis
    Alana Iglewicz
    Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0664, La Jolla, San Diego, CA 92093, USA
    Psychiatr Clin North Am 34:295-318, vii. 2011
    ..As such, this article focuses on the nonaffective, neuropsychiatric causes of chronic psychosis in the elderly, specifically schizophrenia, delusional disorder, and the psychosis of AD and other dementias...
  7. ncbi A tune in "a minor" can "b major": a review of epidemiology, illness course, and public health implications of subthreshold depression in older adults
    Thomas W Meeks
    Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, UCSD, United States
    J Affect Disord 129:126-42. 2011
    ..We termed these syndromes subthreshold depression, including minor depression and subsyndromal depression...
  8. ncbi Subthreshold depression and successful aging in older women
    Ipsit V Vahia
    Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
    Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 18:212-20. 2010
    ....
  9. ncbi Research agenda for DSM-V: diagnostic categories and criteria for neuropsychiatric syndromes in dementia
    Dilip V Jeste
    Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, CA 92161, USA
    J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol 19:160-71. 2006
    ..The high emotional and economic costs of neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia implore diagnostic refinement to facilitate improved treatment...
  10. ncbi Expert consensus on characteristics of wisdom: a Delphi method study
    Dilip V Jeste
    Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging, and Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
    Gerontologist 50:668-80. 2010
    ..We sought to better characterize this concept via an expert consensus panel using a 2-phase Delphi method...
  11. ncbi Neurobiology of wisdom: a literature overview
    Thomas W Meeks
    Department of Psychiatry and Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging, University of California, San Diego, USA
    Arch Gen Psychiatry 66:355-65. 2009
    ..Wisdom is a unique psychological trait noted since antiquity, long discussed in humanities disciplines, recently operationalized by psychology and sociology researchers, but largely unexamined in psychiatry or biology...
  12. ncbi Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use in geriatric psychiatry clinics
    Thomas W Meeks
    J Altern Complement Med 13:705-7. 2007