Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-kw2vx Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-21T10:50:46.059Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Phenomenology of Depression in Dementia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2005

Frans R. J. Verhey  and
Pieter Jelle Visser
Frans R. J. Verhey
Affiliation:
Institute of Brain and Behaviour, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Pieter Jelle Visser
Affiliation:
Institute of Brain and Behaviour, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Get access

Extract

Dementia and depression are the two most prevalent psychiatric disorders in the elderly. Although dementia has traditionally been viewed as a disorder of cognition, and depression as a disorder of mood, this simple classification has recently been questioned, and the complex interrelationship between depression and dementia is being elucidated (Emery & Oxman, 1992; Raskind, 1998). Patients with depression may show cognitive deficits, simulating dementia (Berrios, 1989), and patients with dementing disorders may show symptoms of depression (Allen & Burns, 1995; Burns, 1991). In addition, depression may precede dementia and represent the very first signs of dementing illness, or may be a risk factor for subsequent dementia.

Type
Phenomenology
Information
International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 12 , Issue S1 , July 2000 , pp. 129 - 134
Copyright
© 2000 International Psychogeriatric Association

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)