Onset in elderly depressive patients

Abstract

Conclusions: The group PS results characterized by male patients, late onset, higher level of greater in anxious symptomatology, lower scolarity and intellectual disorders: memory and concetration deficit, scores significatively higher in the single subscales of somatization, obsessive-compulsive and psychotic at SCL-90. The subtype with psichotic symptoms presents higher comorbidity for general medical condition, statistically significant for neurologic and severity in disability. Regarding temperamental dimensions, there aren't differences statistically significant.