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Late-life depression /
We live in an aging world. Illnesses that are prevalent and cause significant morbidity and mortality in older people will consume an increasing share of health care resources. One such illness is depression. This illness has a particularly devastating impact in the elderly because it is often undia...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2004.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contributors
- Introduction
- PART I: EPIDEMIOLOGY AND THE BURDEN OF ILLNESS
- 1. The Epidemiology of Depressive Disorders in Late Life
- Case Identification
- Prevalence, Incidence, and Distribution
- Prognosis
- Historical Trends
- Use of Psychiatric Services
- 2. The Social and Financial Burden of Late-Life Depression to Society and Individuals
- Mortality
- Co-Morbidity and Disability
- Health-Care Service and Resource Use
- Suicide and Late-Life Depression
- PART II: THE PHENOMENOLOGY AND DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF LATE-LIFE MOOD DISORDERS.
- 3. Unipolar Depression
- Diagnosing Late-Life Depression
- Other Syndromes of Late-Life Depression
- Assessment
- Course and Consequences of Late-Life Depression
- Medical Co-Morbidity
- Cognitive Impairment Disorders
- Disability
- Suicide
- Barriers to Effective Recognition and Treatment of Geriatric Unipolar Depression
- 4. Bipolar Disorders
- Historical Perspective
- Diagnosis
- Differential Diagnosis of Mania in Late Life
- Epidemiology
- Pathophysiology and Etiology
- Features of Episodes: Psychopathology and Its Assessment
- Cognitive Impairment.
- Function/Behavioral Disability
- Course of Illness: Chronicity
- Course of Illness: Relapse and Recurrence
- Course of Illness: Suicide
- Course of Illness: Psychiatric Services Use and Caregiver Burden
- Modification of the Course by Other Age-Associated Factors
- Nonaffective Outcomes
- Response to Antimanic Treatment
- Response to Antidepressant Treatment in Bipolar Depression
- Relapse and Recurrence in Maintenance Treatment
- 5. Dysthymic Disorder in the Elderly
- Prevalence
- Diagnosis
- Age-at-Onset
- Co-Morbidity
- Family History.
- Social Adjustment, Quality of Life, and Disability
- Prognosis
- Dysthymic Disorder in Primary Care
- Rating Scales
- Neurobiology
- Treatment
- Long-Term Response and Relapse
- Antipsychotic Medications
- Psychotherapy
- 6. Nonmajor Clinically Significant Depression in the Elderly
- Nosological and Diagnostic Complexities
- Historical Perspective
- Stability of Syndromes and Psychiatric Diagnoses
- Differential Diagnosis: Minor Depression
- Differential Diagnosis: Subsyndromal Depressive Spectrum
- Differential Diagnosis: Other Diagnostic Categories.
- Does Geriatric Nonmajor Clinically Significant Depression Differ from Depression in Younger Adults?
- Epidemiology and Clinical Features
- Genetics
- Neuroimaging, and Neuropsychological and Polysomnographic Studies
- Treatment
- 7. Mixed Cognitive and Depressive Syndromes
- Depression in Dementia
- Putative Common Neurobiological Mechanisms of Dementia and Depression
- Cerebrovascular Disease and Depression in Dementia
- Cognition in Late-Life Depression
- Is ""Pseudodementia"" Real?
- Neuropsychological Studies of Cognition in Late-Life Depression.