News tagged with american journal of geriatric psychiatry
Why is late-life depression harder to treat?
Scientists have found an important clue in the quest to understand why people who suffer from depression in later life are harder to treat and keep well in the long term.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 04, 2010 |
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Video games may help combat depression in older adults
Research at the Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine suggests a novel route to improving the symptoms of subsyndromal depression (SSD) in seniors ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 25, 2010 |
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Care management reduces depression and suicidal thoughts in older primary care patients
Depression in older adults too often goes unrecognized and untreated, resulting in untold misery, worsening of medical illness, and early death. A new study has identified one important remedy: Adding a trained depression ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 23, 2009 |
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