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Lack of Association Between Depression and Loss of Neurons in the Locus Coeruleus in Alzheimer Disease
Author(s) -
Witte J.G. Hoogendijk,
Iris E. Sommer,
Chris W. Pool,
Wouter Kamphorst,
Michel A. Hofman,
Piet Eikelenboom,
Dick F. Swaab
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
archives of general psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3636
pISSN - 0003-990X
DOI - 10.1001/archpsyc.56.1.45
Subject(s) - locus coeruleus , depression (economics) , psychology , disease , alzheimer's disease , dementia , medicine , central nervous system disease , degenerative disease , locus (genetics) , psychiatry , neuroscience , central nervous system , biology , economics , macroeconomics , biochemistry , gene
Depression, one of the most frequent psychiatric disturbances in Alzheimer disease (AD), is proposed to have its neurobiological basis in neuron loss in the noradrenergic locus coeruleus, although this is not the case in idiopathic depression.

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