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A preliminary study of the association between changes in mood and cognition in a mixed geriatric psychiatry sample
Author(s)	Ralph H B Benedict, Melissa Dobraski, Marion Z Goldstein
Journal title	The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 54B, no 2, March 1999
Pages	pp P94-P99
Keywords	Depression ; Cognitive impairment ; Psychogeriatric patients ; Assessment procedures for mental patients ; United States of America.
Annotation	The relationship between measures of mood state and cognitive function was investigated in a sample of American geriatric psychiatry patients. All were admitted to an urban hospital with varying degrees of cognitive impairment. Patients with diminishing negative affects and depressive symptoms during the course of hospitalisation improved significantly on three cognitive tests, and half of the group members were no longer impaired according to their performance on a mental status examination. Correlations between cognition and mood-scale change scores were significant on tests emphasising spatial processing and learning. Although the effects were modest in this heterogeneous sample, the data demonstrate a significant influence of changing mood state on neuropsychological test performance. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-990430002 A
Classmark	ENR: E4: LF:E: DA:4C: 7T
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