Geriatrics News

Treatment responses to citalopram were comparable among older and younger adults with major depressive disorder, according to recent findings.

Adults aged 70 years and older were more likely to disclose their intent to commit suicide compared with their peers aged 50 to 59 years.

In a cohort of older U.S. adults, individuals with a poor sense of smell had a more than twofold greater likelihood of developing dementia 5 years later when compared with those who had a normal sense of smell, according to recent findings.

Mental Illness Awareness Week takes place from October 1 to 7.

Changes in personality, specifically neuroticism, conscientiousness and extraversion, did not begin before the onset of mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s disease, according to recent findings.

Methylphenidate significantly improved apathy, cognition, functional status, caregiver burden and depression among community-dwelling veterans with mild Alzheimer’s disease.

NEW ORLEANS — “Something I’m seeing more and more are the consequences of either major traumatic brain injury in a single episode in older adults, as well as the effects of repeated, concussive-type injuries in younger adults, who are unfortunately developing early-onset Alzheimer’s disease,” George Grossberg, MD, of Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, told Healio.com/Psychiatry.

NEW ORLEANS — In a keynote address here at Psych Congress, Timothy S. Harlan, MD, FAPC, of Tulane University, discussed the importance of nutrition in neurocognition and mental health.

The 30th annual Psych Congress will take place in New Orleans from Saturday, Sept. 16 through Tuesday, Sept. 19.

A heart-healthy lifestyle can improve brain health in adults and reduce the risk for cognitive decline, including dementia, according to a presidential advisory from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association published in Stroke.