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BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
卷 48, 期 4, 页码 301-309出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(00)00829-5
关键词
depression; hippocampus; magnetic resonance imaging
资金
- NIMH NIH HHS [K07 MH01367, P 30 MH40159, R01 MH54846] Funding Source: Medline
Background: There is a growing literature on the importance of hippocampal volume in geriatric depression. Methods: We examined hippocampal volume in a group of elderly depressed patients and a group of elderly control subjects (N = 66 geriatric depressed patients and 18 elderly nondepressed control subjects) recruited through Duke's Mental Health Clinical Research Center for the Study of Depression in the Elderly. The subjects received a standardized evaluation, including a magnetic resonance imaging scan of the brain. patients had unipolar major depression and were free of comorbid major psychiatric illness and neurologic illness, Differences populations of were assessed using t tests and linear regression modeling. Results: Accounting for the effects of age, gender, and total brain volume, depressed patients tended to have smaller right hippocampal volume (p = .014) and left hippocampal volume (p = .073). Among depressed patients, age of onset was negatively but not significantly related to right hippocampal volume (p = .052) and to left hippocampal volume (p = .062). We noted that among subjects with either right or left hippocampal volume of 3 mt or less, the vast majority were patients rather than control subjects. Conclusions: These results support a role for hippocampal dysfunction in depression, particularly in late-age onset depression. Longitudinal studies examining both depressive and cognitive outcomes are needed to clarify the relationships between the hippocampus, depression, and dementia, (C) 2000 Society of Biological Psychiatry.
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