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Prevalence and correlates of anxiety in Alzheimer's disease
E Chemerinski1, G Petracca, F Manes
1Department of Neuropsychiatry, Raúl Carrea Institute of Neurological Research, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Depression and Anxiety
|August 26, 1998
Abstract:
We assessed a consecutive series of 398 patients with probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) for the presence of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) using a standardized neuropsychiatric evaluation. Five percent of patients showed GAD during the 4 weeks preceding the psychiatric evaluation. AD patients with GAD showed significantly higher scores of depression, irritability, overt aggression, mania, and pathological crying than AD patients without GAD. The most severe symptoms of anxiety were those of tension, fears, insomnia, and physical complaints.