Symptoms of depression in Alzheimer's disease, frontal lobe-type dementia, and subcortical dementia

Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1995 Dec 15:769:389-92. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1995.tb38153.x.

Abstract

These findings support the hypothesis that a frontal-subcortical abnormality is necessary to produce symptoms of depression (e.g., mood-related signs, behavioral disturbances, neurovegetative signs) in dementia. Behavioral disturbances (e.g., disinhibition, agitation, social withdrawal) were more likely to occur in FLTD than in AD or SCD.

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Alzheimer Disease / complications*
  • Alzheimer Disease / physiopathology
  • Basal Ganglia / physiopathology*
  • Dementia / complications*
  • Dementia / physiopathology
  • Depression / etiology*
  • Female
  • Frontal Lobe / physiopathology*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Thalamus / physiopathology*