Brain computed tomography findings in geriatric depression and primary degenerative dementia. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Brain computed tomography (CT) scans were performed in hospitalized geriatric patients with major depression (n = 45) or primary degenerative dementia (n = 21). Depressed patients with onset of illness at age 60 years or older (n = 32) had greater ventricular size than geriatric depressives with earlier age of illness onset (n = 13). CT parameters of late-onset depressives were comparable to those of patients with primary degenerative dementia. However, early-onset geriatric depressives had significantly smaller ventricles and less sulcal widening than demented patients. The findings suggest that late-onset depression may have a stronger association with neurological dementing disorders than early-onset depression.

publication date

  • March 15, 1992

Research

keywords

  • Brain
  • Dementia
  • Depressive Disorder
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0026551029

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/0006-3223(92)90245-u

PubMed ID

  • 1581438

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 31

issue

  • 6