Cognitive functioning throughout the treatment history of clinical late-life depression
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Cognitive functioning throughout the treatment history of clinical late-life depression.
OBJECTIVE Previous investigations into the relationship between late-life depressive symptoms and cognitive functioning have resulted in mixed findings concerning whether or not depressive symptoms and cognitive functioning are related. The mixed reports may be due in part to differences in clinical and nonclinical samples and to inadequate consideration of the dynamic nature (i.e., fluctuating...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0885-6230
DOI: 10.1002/gps.4264