Depression in Parkinson's disease: clinical-epidemiological correlates and comparison with a controlled group of non-parkinsonian geriatric patients Depressão na doença de Parkinson: análise clínico-epidemiológica e comparação com um grupo de pacientes geriátricos não parkinsonianos

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate and compare the frequency and severity of major depression in patients with Parkinson's disease and in individuals older than 60 years without neurological, rheumatological and/or oncological comorbidities. METHOD: We studied 50 patients with Parkinson's disease olde...

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Main Authors: Beatriz Azevedo dos Anjos Godke Veiga, Vanderci Borges, Sonia Maria César de Azevedo Silva, Fabrício de Oliveira Goulart, Maysa Seabra Cendoroglo, Henrique Ballalai Ferraz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria (ABP) 2009-03-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-44462009000100010