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Article: Research challenges belief that depression and dementia are linked.
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- July 19, 2004
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2004 JUL 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Older people who become depressed are prone to developing dementia 2 to 4 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 builds on results author Meryl Butters, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and her colleagues published 4 years ago, showing that even after successful depression treatment, elderly patients with depression did not regain the level of cognition they had before they became ...