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Predicting severity of depression in the elderly at six-month follow-up: a neuropsychological study
D A King1, E D Caine, Y Conwell
1UR-NIMH Clinical Research Center, University of Rochester School of Medicine, New York, USA.
The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
The authors conducted psychopathological and neuropsychological assessments on a pilot sample of 15 nondemented elderly depressed patients at the outset of inpatient treatment and again after 6 months. Pretreatment performance on a test of confrontation naming was predictive of severity of depressive symptoms at follow-up. These findings tentatively suggest that the naming ability of elderly depressed subjects may have prognostic significance.