Geriatrics
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ECT electrode placement matters most in elderly
Major finding: Right unilateral ECT provided a 70.4% remission rate in severely depressed patients aged 60 or older, compared with a 46% rate in...
Conference Coverage
Quality gap in atrial fibrillation care significant
Major finding: A total of 36% of patients with a CHADS2 score of 5, and 41.2% with a score of 6 left the hospital without medications to prevent...
Conference Coverage
VIDEO: CoreValve self-expanding aortic valve beat surgical replacement
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Simple smell test may predict donepezil response
Major finding: Patients with a low UPSIT score who were assigned to donepezil showed a mean 10.4-point improvement on the Selective Reminding Test...
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ECT quells dementia-associated agitation
Major finding: Patients responded to ECT for agitation as a symptom of dementia with an average 8-point drop on the Pittsburgh Agitation Scale...
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Vortioxetine establishes credentials for late-life depression
Major finding: Hamilton Rating Scale–Depression scores among those in the vortioxetine group fell by an average of 3.3 more points than in...
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Say goodbye to ‘dementia’
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Late-life depression can be dementia prodrome
Major finding: Deficits on two tests – CERAD Recognition Memory and Trail Making B – were associated with a 6.8-fold increased risk of developing...
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Half of stroke survivors returned to driving
Major finding: Six percent of stroke survivors underwent formal driving evaluations, but 51% of survivors returned to driving within 1 year.Data...
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Hoarding: Not just a symptom of OCD
Major finding: Seventy of 165 adult psychiatric inpatients screened for compulsive hoarding displayed evidence of a clinically significant...