Barbiturate tolerance and psychological functioning in elderly depressed patients
- 1 February 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychological Medicine
- Vol. 3 (1) , 39-52
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s003329170004633x
Abstract
Synopsis Increases in barbiturate tolerance and in scores on certain cognitive tests were found to have occurred after the treatment of elderly depressives. These changes were related to original severity of illness and to the extent of improvement, as well as to a number of other clinical features including age at first attack. The reported findings lent support to theories linking depressive illness with reduction in cortical arousability.Keywords
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