Article: University of Pittsburgh Research Challenges Belief That Depression and Dementia are Linked.

PITTSBURGH, June 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Older people who become depressed are prone to developing dementia, two to four years later. However, new research from the University of Pittsburgh shows that half of depressed elderly patients have significant cognitive problems at the time they are depressed, but the other half do not.

The study, published in the June edition of the Archives of General Psychiatry, builds on results author Meryl Butters, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and her colleagues published four years ago, showing that even after successful depression treatment, elderly patients with depression did ...

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