[HTML][HTML] Impact of COVID-19 in the mental health in elderly: psychological and biological updates

RE Grolli, MED Mingoti, AG Bertollo, AR Luzardo… - Molecular …, 2021 - Springer
Since December 2019, the world has been experiencing the challenge of facing coronavirus
disease-19 (COVID-19), a severe infectious disease caused by the new coronavirus, SARS …

[HTML][HTML] Biological factors influencing depression in later life: role of aging processes and treatment implications

SM Szymkowicz, AR Gerlach, D Homiack… - Translational …, 2023 - nature.com
Late-life depression occurring in older adults is common, recurrent, and malignant. It is
characterized by affective symptoms, but also cognitive decline, medical comorbidity, and …

[HTML][HTML] Microglial NLRP3 inflammasome activates neurotoxic astrocytes in depression-like mice

S Li, Y Fang, Y Zhang, M Song, X Zhang, X Ding… - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
The function and regulation of different heterogeneous reactive states of astrocytes in
depression remain unclear. Here, we demonstrate that neurotoxic reactive (A1-like) …

Social participation and depressive symptoms in community-dwelling older adults: Emotional social support as a mediator

E Choi, KM Han, J Chang, YJ Lee, KW Choi… - Journal of psychiatric …, 2021 - Elsevier
Previous studies have documented the protective effects of social participation on
depression in older adults. In this study, we investigated the association between social …

Characterizing heterogeneity in neuroimaging, cognition, clinical symptoms, and genetics among patients with late-life depression

J Wen, CHY Fu, D Tosun, Y Veturi, Z Yang… - JAMA …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Late-life depression (LLD) is characterized by considerable heterogeneity in
clinical manifestation. Unraveling such heterogeneity might aid in elucidating etiological …

Adult hippocampal neurogenesis in major depressive disorder and Alzheimer's disease

T Berger, H Lee, AH Young, D Aarsland… - Trends in molecular …, 2020 - cell.com
Depression and dementia are major public health problems. Major depressive disorder
(MDD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) reciprocally elevate the risk for one another. No …

[HTML][HTML] Depressive symptoms in cognitively unimpaired older adults are associated with lower structural and functional integrity in a frontolimbic network

E Touron, I Moulinet, E Kuhn, S Sherif, V Ourry… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Subclinical depressive symptoms are associated with increased risk of Alzheimer's disease
(AD), but the brain mechanisms underlying this relationship are still unclear. We aimed to …

[HTML][HTML] Pathways connecting late-life depression and dementia

C Linnemann, UE Lang - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Late-life depression is associated with significant cognitive impairment. Meta-analyses
showed that depression is associated with an increased risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD) …

Late-life depression, cognitive impairment, and relationship with Alzheimer's disease

S Invernizzi, I Simoes Loureiro… - Dementia and Geriatric …, 2022 - karger.com
This narrative review aimed to explore the existing knowledge in order to examine the
multiple forms of late-life depression (LLD) within a non-neurodegenerative or a …

[HTML][HTML] The complex interplay between depression and multimorbidity in late life: risks and pathways

F Triolo, L Harber-Aschan, MB Murri… - Mechanisms of Ageing …, 2020 - Elsevier
Multimorbidity and depression are complex multifactorial conditions with major implications
for older individuals, their families, and healthcare providers. In this scoping review, we …