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Cognitive Improvement Following Treatment in Late-Life Depression: Relationship to Vascular Risk and Age of Onset

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Barch, Deanna M., D'Angelo, Gina, Pieper, Carl, Wilkins, Consuelo H., Welsh-Bohmer, Kathleen, Taylor, Warren, Garcia, Keith S., Gersing, Kenneth +2 more·2012·The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

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Objectives To test the hypothesis that the degree of vascular burden and/or age of onset may influence the degree to which cognition can improve during the course of treatment in late-life depression.Design Measurement of cognition both before and following 12 weeks of treatment with sertraline.Setting University medical centers (Washington University and Duke University).Participants One hundred sixty-six individuals with late-life depression.Intervention Sertraline treatment.Measurements The cognitive tasks were grouped into five domains (language, processing speed, working memory, episodic memory, and executive function). We measured vascular risk using the Framingham Stroke Risk Profile measure. We measured T2-based white matter hyperintensities using the Fazekas criteria.Results Both episodic memory and executive function demonstrated significant improvement among adults with late-life depression during treatment with sertraline. Importantly, older age, higher vascular risk scores, and lower baseline Mini-Mental State Examination scores predicted less change in working memory. Furthermore, older age, later age of onset, and higher vascular risk scores predicted less change in executive function.Conclusions These results have important clinical implications in that they suggest that a regular assessment of vascular risk in older adults with depression is necessary as a component of treatment planning and in predicting prognosis, both for the course of the depression itself and for the cognitive impairments that often accompany depression in later life.

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Barch, D. M., D'Angelo, G., Pieper, C., Wilkins, C. H., Welsh-Bohmer, K., Taylor, W., Garcia, K. S., Gersing, K., Doraiswamy, P. M., & Sheline, Y. I.
Affiliations
  • Washington University in St. Louis (US)
  • Duke University (US)
Corresponding author
Barch, Deanna M.
Venue
The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2012-08
Volume
20
Issue
8
Pages
682-690
ISSN
1064-7481 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2106744889
Cited by
64
References
40
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FWCI
4.72
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • U.S. Public Health Service (K24 65421)
  • National Institute on Aging (K25AG035062)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH060697, R01MH062158)
  • National Center for Research Resources (RR.00036, M01RR000036)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology › Treatment of Major Depression
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Keywords
geriatric depression, cognitive enhancement, sertraline, vascular risk, age of onset, white matter hyperintensities, episodic memory, executive function, working memory, processing speed, language, older adults, antidepressant response
MeSH terms
Aged, Antidepressive Agents, Cognition Disorders, Depression, Female, Humans, Male, Memory, Mental Status Schedule, Severity of Illness Index, Vascular Diseases, Treatment Outcome, Age of Onset, Sertraline, Executive Function

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