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] Promoting successful cognitive aging: a ten-year update

TJ Krivanek, SA Gale, BM McFeeley… - Journal of …, 2021 - content.iospress.com
A decade has passed since we published a comprehensive review in this journal
addressing the topic of promoting successful cognitive aging, making this a good time to …

Influences of dopaminergic system dysfunction on late-life depression

WD Taylor, DH Zald, JC Felger, S Christman… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Deficits in cognition, reward processing, and motor function are clinical features relevant to
both aging and depression. Individuals with late-life depression often show impairment …

Crosstalk between existential phenomenological psychotherapy and neurological sciences in mood and anxiety disorders

L Balogh, M Tanaka, N Török, L Vécsei, S Taguchi - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Psychotherapy is a comprehensive biological treatment modifying complex underlying
cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and regulatory responses in the brain, leading patients with …

Accelerated brain aging predicts impaired cognitive performance and greater disability in geriatric but not midlife adult depression

S Christman, C Bermudez, L Hao, BA Landman… - Translational …, 2020 - nature.com
Depression is associated with markers of accelerated aging, but it is unclear how this
relationship changes across the lifespan. We examined whether a brain-based measure of …

Neural substrates for late-life depression: a selective review of structural neuroimaging studies

YK Kim, KM Han - Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent neuroimaging studies have characterized the pathophysiology of late-life depression
(LLD) as a dysfunction of the brain networks involved in the regulation of emotion …

Accelerated brain aging predicts impulsivity and symptom severity in depression

K Dunlop, LW Victoria, J Downar, FM Gunning… - …, 2021 - nature.com
Multiple structural and functional neuroimaging measures vary over the course of the
lifespan and can be used to predict chronological age. Accelerated brain aging, as …

Pathomechanisms of vascular depression in older adults

KA Jellinger - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Depression in older individuals is a common complex mood disorder with high comorbidity
of both psychiatric and physical diseases, associated with high disability, cognitive decline …

Disrupted intrinsic functional brain network in patients with late-life depression: Evidence from a multi-site dataset

W Tan, X Ouyang, D Huang, Z Wu, Z Liu, Z He… - Journal of Affective …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Late-life depression (LLD) is a common and serious mental disorder, whose
neural mechanisms are not yet fully understood. In this study, we aimed to characterize LLD …

Brain-based mechanisms of late-life depression: implications for novel interventions

FM Gunning, LE Oberlin, M Schier… - Seminars in cell & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Late-life depression (LLD) is a particularly debilitating illness. Older adults suffering from
depression commonly experience poor outcomes in response to antidepressant treatments …