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Treatment response of high cognitive dysfunction depressed inpatients
I W Miller1, W H Norman, G I Keitner
1Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University, Providence, RI.
Comprehensive Psychiatry
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
A sample of depressed inpatients was subdivided according to their initial levels of cognitive dysfunction. These high cognitive dysfunction (HCD) patients and low cognitive dysfunction (LCD) patients received either pharmacotherapy or combined pharmacotherapy plus cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy. Treatments began in the hospital and continued for 20 weeks on an outpatient basis. Results indicated that HCD patients had significantly better treatment response to the combined treatment than pharmacotherapy alone, while LCD patients responded equally to pharmacotherapy alone and combined treatment.