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- noun medicine A mild form of
dementia from which the patient (often an elderly woman) may recover.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Usually, ECT alleviates pseudodementia associated with major depression in the elderly.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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Of this figure, about one third of cases result from depressive pseudodementia, one fourth from normal-pressure hydrocephalus, one fifth from intracranial mass lesions, and one half of the rest from drug-related disorders 606.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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Cognitive dysfunction secondary to depression (pseudodementia), however, is more common among the elderly (315), and rates are higher for cortisol secretion and dexamethasone nonsuppression among older melancholic patients (136).
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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Depressed patients with pseudodementia have either normal perfusion or a generalized or anterior left greater than right decrease in perfusion.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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The distinction is important, as patients with pseudodementia respond well to treatment, particularly ECT.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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SPECT also can be helpful in discriminating elderly patients with depression and pseudodementia from those with early Alzheimer’s disease with or without depressive features.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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