ArticleInternational journal of geriatric psychiatry2012
Association of attentional shift and reversal learning to functional deficits in geriatric depression.
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- Dissociable effects of acute SSRI (escitalopram) on executive, learning and emotional functions in healthy humans.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2018Article
- Physical frailty in late-life depression is associated with deficits in speed-dependent executive functions.International journal of geriatric psychiatry · 2016Article
- Disability but not social support predicts cognitive deterioration in late-life depression.International psychogeriatrics · 2015Article
- Mindfulness-based stress reduction for older adults with worry symptoms and co-occurring cognitive dysfunction.International journal of geriatric psychiatry · 2014Article
- Anxiety and attention shifting in professional baseball players.International journal of sports medicine · 2014Article
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- Cognition as a therapeutic target in late-life depression: potential for nicotinic therapeutics.Biochemical pharmacology · 2013Review
- Depression and cognitive impairment in older adults.Current psychiatry reports · 2012Review
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Abstract
objectiveThe objective of this study is to examine the association between self-reported functional disability in depressed older adults and two types of executive function processes, attentional set shifting and reversal learning.
methodsParticipants (N = 89) were aged 60 or over and enrolled in a naturalistic treatment study of major depressive disorder. Participants provided information on self-reported function in instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) and completed the Intra-Extra Dimensional Set Shift test (IED) from the Cambridge Neuropsychological Testing Automated Battery, which assesses intra-dimensional attentional shifts, extra-dimensional attentional shifts, and reversal learning. Participants were categorized by the presence or absence of IADL difficulties and compared on IED performance using bivariable and multivariable tests.
resultsParticipants who reported IADL difficulties had more errors in extra-dimensional attentional shifting and reversal learning, but intra-dimensional shift errors were not associated with IADLs. Only extra-dimensional shift errors were significant in multivariable models that controlled for age, sex, and depression severity.
conclusionsAttentional shifting across categories (i.e., extra-dimensional) was most strongly associated with increased IADL difficulties among depressed older adults, which make interventions to improve flexible problem solving a potential target for reducing instrumental disability in this population.
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