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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-8-9
pubmed:abstractText
Frontal hypoperfusion and frontal dysfunction have been reported in patients with major depression. It was also found that frontal hypoperfusion correlated with frontal dysfunction evaluated by neuropsychological tests in depressive patients aged 60 or over. These findings suggested that depression may cause frontal dysfunction and frontal hypoperfusion, and that these pathophysiological changes are manifested as psychomotor retardation. We performed single photon emission computed tomography and Modified Stroop Test on 35 patients with depression aged 25-83 to investigate association of depressive symptoms and psychological tests with cerebral blood perfusion. Additionally, we divided the patients into a younger (less than 60 years old) and an older (60 or over) group to examine the effect of age. Significant correlations were found between frontal perfusion, interference measure on Modified Stroop Test, and psychomotor retardation in all patients. These correlations were also found in the younger group. There was no significant difference on frontal perfusion, interference measure of the Modified Stroop Test, and psychomotor retardation between the two groups. The present findings suggest that frontal hypoperfusion, frontal dysfunction, and psychomotor retardation were associated with one another in not only the old but also the young patients with depression.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
1323-1316
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
58
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
389-95
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15298652-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:15298652-Age Factors, pubmed-meshheading:15298652-Attention, pubmed-meshheading:15298652-Blood Flow Velocity, pubmed-meshheading:15298652-Brain Ischemia, pubmed-meshheading:15298652-Cerebral Cortex, pubmed-meshheading:15298652-Color Perception, pubmed-meshheading:15298652-Depressive Disorder, Major, pubmed-meshheading:15298652-Discrimination Learning, pubmed-meshheading:15298652-Dominance, Cerebral, pubmed-meshheading:15298652-Female, pubmed-meshheading:15298652-Frontal Lobe, pubmed-meshheading:15298652-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:15298652-Male, pubmed-meshheading:15298652-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:15298652-Neuropsychological Tests, pubmed-meshheading:15298652-Psychomotor Disorders, pubmed-meshheading:15298652-Reaction Time, pubmed-meshheading:15298652-Reading, pubmed-meshheading:15298652-Reference Values, pubmed-meshheading:15298652-Regional Blood Flow, pubmed-meshheading:15298652-Semantics, pubmed-meshheading:15298652-Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Psychomotor retardation correlates with frontal hypoperfusion and the Modified Stroop Test in patients under 60-years-old with major depression.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychiatry, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan. narita@yokohama-cu.ac.jp
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study