Related Experiment Videos
Platelet MAO activity in geriatric patients with depression and dementia
G S Alexopoulos1, R C Young, K W Lieberman
1Department of Psychiatry, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Cornell University Medical College, White Plains 10605.
The American Journal of Psychiatry
|November 1, 1987
Abstract:
The authors studied platelet MAO activity in psychiatrically hospitalized geriatric patients with depression and dementia. Platelet MAO activity was higher in demented patients with and without depression and in depressed patients with reversible dementia than in nondemented depressed patients. The data suggest that abnormally high platelet MAO activity may reflect a predisposition to the development of a dementia syndrome.