Journal of Depression and Anxiety
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Mauricio Garnier- Villarreal

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• Research Article
  Depressive Symptoms Affect Working Memory in Healthy Older Adult Hispanics
  Author(s): Monica Salazar-Villanea, Edward Liebmann, Mauricio Garnier-Villarreal, Esteban Montenegro-Montenegro and David K. Johnson Monica Salazar-Villanea, Edward Liebmann, Mauricio Garnier-Villarreal, Esteban Montenegro-Montenegro and David K. Johnson
  
  Objectives: Low and middle income nations will experience an unprecedented growth of the elderly population and subsequent increase in age-related neurological disorders. Worldwide prevalence and incidence of all-types of neurological disorders with serious mental health complications will increase with life expectancy across the globe. Onein- ten individuals over 75 has at least moderate cognitive impairment. Prevalence of cognitive impairment doubles every 5 years thereafter. Latin America’s population of older adult’s 65 years and older is growing rapidly, yet little is known about cognitive aging among healthy older Latinos. Clinically significant depressive symptomatology is common among community-dwelling older adults and is associated with deficits across multiple cognitive domains, however much of the literature has not modeled the unique effects of depression dist.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2167-1044.1000204

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