BRIEF COMMUNICATION Awareness of memory deficits is useful to distinguish between depression and mild cognitive impairment in the elderly
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Awareness of memory deficits is useful to distinguish between depression and mild cognitive impairment in the elderly Gabriel Coutinho, Cláudia Drummond, Alina Teldeschi, Paulo Mattos Instituto D’Or de Pesquisa e Ensino (IDOR), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Programa de Ciências Morfológicas (PCM), Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas (ICB), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Instituto de Psiquiatria, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
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