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J'accuse! depression as a likely culprit in cases of AD

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2016

David C. Steffens
David C. Steffens*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, USA
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Email: steffens@uchc.edu
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Clinicians have long appreciated the links between depression, cognitive impairment, and development of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other dementias. More recently, investigators in the fields of epidemiology, genetics, neuroimaging, and neuropathology have sought to quantify the risk and to understand the underlying neurobiology of the relationship between depression and AD.

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International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 28 , Issue 9 , September 2016 , pp. 1407 - 1408
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Copyright © International Psychogeriatric Association 2016 

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