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OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study is to evaluate the diagnostic validity of the three published short Geriatric Depression Scales and to identify a valid and reliable alternative to the Korean...
This article has reviewed general characters of schizophrenia in late life. Specifically, it has reviewed epidemiology, course, and several results of biological researches and so on of schizophrenia in old...
Growing body of evidence has suggested that bipolar disorder in the elderly is important issue of mental health care. While older bipolar patients show different clinical features and response to...
Depression is one of the most devastating behavioral symptoms in demented patients but there is little evidence about effective and safe pharmacotherapy. We aimed to determine the effectiveness and safety...
OBJECTIVE:Optimized voxel based morphometry (VBM) has been increasingly applied to investigate differences in brain morphology between a group of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) patients and control subjects. Optimized VBM permits comparison...
Psychosis in patients with dementia contributes substantially to patient morbidity and caregiver distress. The concept of psychosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other types of dementia is developed with respect...
OBJECTIVES:To investigate mortality rates and predictors of mortality in dementia patients (prevalence cohort) resident at institution.
METHODS:We followed up a dementia cohort for 5 years. A total of 273 subjects with...