1990
Language performance deficits in elderly depressed patients
Speedie L, O'donnell W, Rabins P, Pearlson G, Poggi M, Rothi L. Language performance deficits in elderly depressed patients. Aphasiology 1990, 4: 197-205. DOI: 10.1080/02687039008249070.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchLanguage performancePerformance deficitsElderly depressed patientsDepressed patientsLanguage functionJudgment difficultyNormal elderly subjectsCognitive impairmentAffective disordersDeficitsEducational levelMajor affective disordersElderly subjectsMemoryDifficultiesFurther explorationImpairmentDepressionLanguageDisordersPerformanceConfrontationNormal groupConfrontation naming deficit in dementia of depression
Speedie L, Rabins P, Pearlson G, Moberg P. Confrontation naming deficit in dementia of depression. Journal Of Neuropsychiatry 1990, 2: 59-63. PMID: 2136062, DOI: 10.1176/jnp.2.1.59.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDementia of depressionDelayed visual memoryIrreversible dementiaMemory taskVisual memoryFree recallLanguage abilityNondepressed control subjectsDepressed patientsMemoryCognitive impairmentNormal cognitionElderly depressed patientsRecallDepressionTaskDementiaMajor depressionReversible dementiaPatient groupControl subjectsCognitionPatientsDeficitsConfrontation
1989
Structural brain CT changes and cognitive deficits in elderly depressives with and without reversible dementia (‘pseudodementia’)*
Pearlson G, Rabins P, Kim W, Speedie L, Moberg P, Burns A, Bascom M. Structural brain CT changes and cognitive deficits in elderly depressives with and without reversible dementia (‘pseudodementia’)*. Psychological Medicine 1989, 19: 573-584. PMID: 2798631, DOI: 10.1017/s003329170002417x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMini-Mental State ExaminationVentricular brain ratioAD patientsDepressed patientsNormal controlsDSM-III major depressionCognitive deficitsShort-term progressionStructural brain abnormalitiesCranial CT scanProbable Alzheimer's diseaseCT attenuation valuesCT valuesReversible dementiaElderly patientsMost patientsBrain ratioCT attenuation numbersCT changesElderly depressivesBrain abnormalitiesDementia syndromesMajor depressionCT scanPatients