Mechanisms and treatment of late-life depression

GS Alexopoulos - Translational psychiatry, 2019 - nature.com
Depression predisposes to medical illnesses and advances biological aging indicated by
shorter telomere length, accelerated brain aging and advanced epigenetic aging. Medical …

Repetitive negative thinking is associated with amyloid, tau, and cognitive decline

NL Marchant, LR Lovland, R Jones… - Alzheimer's & …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Introduction The Cognitive Debt hypothesis proposes that repetitive negative
thinking (RNT), a modifiable process common to many psychological risk factors for …

Depression in Alzheimer's disease: epidemiology, mechanisms, and treatment

YY Huang, YH Gan, L Yang, W Cheng, JT Yu - Biological Psychiatry, 2023 - Elsevier
Depression and Alzheimer's disease (AD) are substantial public health concerns. In the past
decades, a link between two disease entities has received extensive acknowledgment, yet …

Depression is associated with tau and not amyloid positron emission tomography in cognitively normal adults

GM Babulal, CM Roe, SH Stout… - Journal of …, 2020 - content.iospress.com
Background: Depression is also common with older age. Alzheimer's disease (AD) studies
suggest that both cerebrospinal fluid and positron emission tomography (PET) amyloid …

Depressive symptoms and tau accumulation in the inferior temporal lobe and entorhinal cortex in cognitively normal older adults: a pilot study

JR Gatchel, NJ Donovan, JJ Locascio… - Journal of …, 2017 - content.iospress.com
Background: Depressive symptoms are common in older adults and associated with
increased morbidity and cognitive decline. These symptoms occur during preclinical and …

Plasma neurofilament light chain in association to late‐life depression in the general population

IK Schuurmans, M Ghanbari, CAM Cecil… - Psychiatry and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Investigating what is underlying late‐life depression is becoming increasingly important
with the rapidly growing elderly population. Yet, the associations between plasma …

Lower regional gray matter volume in the absence of higher cortical amyloid burden in late-life depression

A Takamiya, T Vande Casteele, M Koole… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Late-life depression (LLD) is associated with a risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD).
However, the role of AD-pathophysiology in LLD, and its association with clinical symptoms …

[HTML][HTML] Depressive disorders in the elderly and dementia: An update

NS Dias, IG Barbosa, W Kuang… - Dementia & …, 2020 - SciELO Brasil
The relationship between depressive disorders in the elderly and dementia, particularly
Alzheimer's disease (AD), is highly complex. While the nature of this relationship is still a …

Association of midlife depressive symptoms with regional amyloid-β and tau in the Framingham heart study

MM Gonzales, J Samra, A O'Donnell… - Journal of …, 2021 - content.iospress.com
Background: Depressive symptoms predict increased risk for dementia decades before the
emergence of cognitive symptoms. Studies in older adults provide preliminary evidence for …

The additive effect of late-life depression and olfactory dysfunction on the risk of dementia was mediated by hypersynchronization of the hippocampus/fusiform gyrus

B Chen, X Zhong, M Zhang, N Mai, Z Wu… - Translational …, 2021 - nature.com
Early detection of patients with late-life depression (LLD) with a high risk of developing
dementia contributes to early intervention. Odor identification (OI) dysfunction serves as a …