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To determine whether comorbid anxiety disorders in patients with unipolar depression correspond with greater neuropsychological dysfunction, particularly in executive function and memory.

August 10, 2007Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

Comorbid anxiety corresponds with neuropsychological dysfunction in unipolar depression

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MBMichael R. BassoMayo Clinic NLNatasha LoweryUniversity of Tulsa CGCourtney O. GhormleyUniversity of Arkansas at Little Rock

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Retrospective comparative study reveals distinct executive dysfunction and psychomotor slowing in depressed inpatients with comorbid anxiety, indicating anxiety compounds cognitive impairment.

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To determine whether comorbid anxiety disorders in patients with unipolar depression correspond with greater neuropsychological dysfunction, particularly in executive function and memory.
Retrospectively analyzed neuropsychological test battery records from hospitalized, nonpsychotic depressed inpatients.
Compared depressed patients with comorbid anxiety disorders (n=22) and without comorbid anxiety disorders (n=30) against a healthy control group (n=38).
Both depressed groups demonstrated worse memory performance compared to control participants, irrespective of anxiety status.
Executive dysfunction and psychomotor slowing occurred specifically in the depressed group with comorbid anxiety, yielding significantly worse scores than both nonanxious depressed patients and healthy controls.
Depressed patients without comorbid anxiety showed no significant psychomotor slowing relative to control subjects.

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Basso et al. (2007) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a72a7898031ec7bb1dd6f04 https://doi.org/10.1080/13546800701446517

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Retrospective comparative study reveals distinct executive dysfunction and psychomotor slowing in depressed inpatients with comorbid anxiety, indicating anxiety compounds cognitive impairment.

Comorbid anxiety corresponds with neuropsychological dysfunction in unipolar depression

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Comorbid anxiety corresponds with neuropsychological dysfunction in unipolar depression

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