General
Blazer DG, Steffens DC, Busse EW (eds): The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry, 3rd ed. Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Publishing, 2004
Colenda CC: Patient choice and end-of-life decisions. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2003; 11:113–114
Sullivan MD: Hope and hopelessness at the end of life. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2003; 11:393–405
Spar JE, La Rue A: Concise Guide to Geriatric Psychiatry, 3rd ed. Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc, 2002
Bartels SJ, Dums AR, Oxman TE, Schneider LS, Areán PA, Alexopoulos GS, Jeste DV: Evidence-based practices in geriatric mental health care. Psychiatr Services 2002; 53:1419–1431
Ryan JM, Kidder SW, Daiello LA, Tariot PN: Psychopharmacologic interventions in nursing homes: what do we know and where should we go? Psychiatr Services 2002; 53:1407–1413
Hyman SE: Mental health in an aging population: the NIMH perspective. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2001; 9:330–339
Cohen GD: Loneliness in later life. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2000; 8:273–275
Cohen GD: The future of being old in America: a mental health perspective. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2000; 8:185–187
Jeste DV, Rockwell E, Harris MJ, Lohr JB, Lacro J: Conventional vs newer antipsychotics in elderly patients. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 1999; 7:70–76
Dementia
Tune LE: Great progress in diagnosis and treatment of dementia. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2003; 11:388–390
Cummings JL: Use of cholinesterase inhibitors in clinical practice: evidence-based recommendations. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2003; 11:131–145
Schneider LS, Porsteinsson AP, Peskin ER, Pfeiffer EA: Choosing treatment for Alzheimer’s patients and their caregivers. Geriatrics 2003; 58(suppl 1):3–18, 23; quiz 19–22
Tariot PN: Medical management of advanced dementia. J Am Geriatr Soc 2003; 51(5 suppl Dementia):S305–S313
Burggren AC, Small GW, Sabb FW, Bookheimer SY: Specificity of brain activation patterns in people at genetic risk for Alzheimer disease. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2002; 10:44–51
Kindermann SS, Dolder CR, Bailey A, Katz IR, Jeste DV: Pharmacological treatment of psychosis and agitation in elderly patients with dementia: four decades of experience. Drugs Aging 2002; 19:257–276
Silverman DH, Small GW, Chang CY, Lu CS, Kung De Aburto MA, Chen W, Czernin J, Rapoport SI, Pietrini P, Alexander GE, Schapiro MB, Jagust WJ, Hoffman JM, Welsh-Bohmer KA, Alavi A, Clark CM, Salmon E, de Leon MJ, Mielke R, Cummings JL, Kowell AP, Gambhir SS, Hoh CK, Phelps ME: Positron emission tomography in evaluation of dementia: regional brain metabolism and long-term outcome. JAMA 2001; 286:2120–2127
Albert SM, Jacobs DM, Sano M, Marder K, Bell K, Devanand D, Brandt J, Albert M, Stern Y: Longitudinal study of quality of life in people with advanced Alzheimer’s disease. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2001; 9:160–168
Cohen-Mansfield J: Nonpharmacologic interventions for inappropriate behaviors in dementia: a review, summary, and critique. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2001; 9:361–381
Edell WS, Tunis SL: Antipsychotic treatment of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia in geropsychiatric inpatients. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2001; 9:289–297
Tariot PN, Ryan JM, Porsteinsson AP, Loy R, Schneider LS: Pharmacologic therapy for behavioral symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. Clin Geriatr Med 2001; 17:359–376
Serby M, Samuels SC: Diagnostic criteria for dementia with Lewy bodies reconsidered. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2001; 9:212–216
Jeste DV, Finkel SI: Psychosis of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias: diagnostic criteria for a distinct syndrome. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2000; 8:29–34
Cohen CA, Pushkar D: Lessons learned from a longitudinal study of dementia care. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 1999; 7:139–146
Beck CK: Psychosocial and behavioral interventions for Alzheimer’s disease patients and their families. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 1998; 6(2 suppl 1):S41–S48
American Psychiatric Association: Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients With Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias of Late Life. Am J Psychiatry 1997; 154(May suppl):1–39
Depression
Alexopoulos GS: Clinical and biological interactions in affective and cognitive geriatric syndromes. Am J Psychiatry 2003; 160:811–814
Alexopoulos GS: Vascular disease, depression, and dementia. J Am Geriatr Soc 2003; 51:1178–1180
Schneider LS, Nelson JC, Clary CM, Newhouse P, Krishnan KR, Shiovitz T, Weihs K, the Sertraline Elderly Depression Study Group: An 8-week multicenter, parallel-group, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of sertraline in elderly outpatients with major depression. Am J Psychiatry 2003; 160:1277–1285
Alexopoulos GS, Borson S, Cuthbert BN, Devanand DP, Mulsant BH, Olin JT, Oslin DW: Assessment of late life depression. Biol Psychiatry 2002; 52:164–174
Alexopoulos GS, Kiosses DN, Klimstra S, Kalayam B, Bruce ML: Clinical presentation of the “depression–executive dysfunction syndrome” of late life. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2002; 10:98–106
Alexopoulos GS: Frontostriatal and limbic dysfunction in late-life depression. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2002; 10:687–695
Joo JH, Lenze EJ, Mulsant BH, Begley AE, Weber EM, Stack JA, Mazumdar S, Reynolds CF 3rd, Pollock BG: Risk factors for falls during treatment of late-life depression. J Clin Psychiatry 2002; 63:936–941
Lockwood KA, Alexopoulos GS, van Gorp WG: Executive dysfunction in geriatric depression. Am J Psychiatry 2002; 159:1119–1126
Miller KJ, Conney JC, Rasgon NL, Fairbanks LA, Small GW: Mood symptoms and cognitive performance in women estrogen users and nonusers and men. J Am Geriatr Soc 2002; 50:1826–1830
Salloway S, Correia S, Boyle P, Malloy P, Schneider L, Lavretsky H, Sackheim H, Roose S, Krishnan KR: MRI subcortical hyperintensities in old and very old depressed outpatients: the important role of age in late-life depression. J Neurol Sci 2002; 203–204, 227–233
Miller MD, Lenze EJ, Dew MA, Whyte E, Weber E, Begley AE, Reynolds CF 3rd: Effect of cerebrovascular risk factors on depression treatment outcome in later life. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2002; 10:592–598
Alexopoulos GS: New concepts for prevention and treatment of late-life depression. Am J Psychiatry 2001; 158:835–838
Reynolds CF 3rd, Alexopoulos GS, Katz IR, Lebowitz BD: Chronic depression in the elderly: approaches for prevention. Drugs Aging 2001; 18:507–514
Miller MD, Cornes C, Frank E, Ehrenpreis L, Silberman R, Schlernitzauer MA, Tracey B, Richards V, Wolfson L, Zaltman J, Bensasi S, Reynolds CF 3rd: Interpersonal psychotherapy for late-life depression: past, present, and future. J Psychother Pract Res 2001; 10:231–238
Mulsant BH, Alexopoulos GS, Reynolds CF 3rd, Katz IR, Abrams R, Oslin D, Schulberg HC, the PROSPECT Study Group: Pharmacological treatment of depression in older primary care patients: the PROSPECT algorithm. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 2001; 16:585–592
Mulsant BH, Pollock BG, Nebes R, Miller MD, Sweet RA, Stack J, Houck PR, Bensasi S, Mazumdar S, Reynolds CF 3rd: A twelve-week, double-blind, randomized comparison of nortriptyline and paroxetine in older depressed inpatients and outpatients. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2001; 9:406–414
Raue PJ, Alexopoulos GS, Bruce ML, Klimstra S, Mulsant BH, Gallo JJ: The systematic assessment of depressed elderly primary care patients. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 2001; 16:560–569
Manly DT, Oakley SP Jr, Bloch RM: Electroconvulsive therapy in old-old patients. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2000; 8:232–236
Oslin DW, Katz IR, Edell WS, Ten Have TR: Effects of alcohol consumption on the treatment of depression among elderly patients. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2000; 8:215–220
Reynolds CF 3rd, Frank E, Perel JM, Imber SD, Cornes C, Miller MD, Mazumdar S, Houck PR, Dew MA, Stack JA, Pollock BG, Kupfer DJ. Nortriptyline and interpersonal psychotherapy as maintenance therapies for recurrent major depression: a randomized controlled trial in patients older than 59 years. JAMA 1999; 281:39–45
Alexopoulos GS, Bruce ML, Hull J, Sirey JA, Kakuma T: Clinical determinants of suicidal ideation and behavior in geriatric depression. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1999; 56:1048–1053
Reynolds CF 3rd, Frank E, Dew MA, Houck PR, Miller M, Mazumdar S, Perel JM, Kupfer DJ: Treatment of 70(+)-year-olds with recurrent major depression: excellent short-term but brittle long-term response. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 1999; 7:64–69
Reynolds CF 3rd, Miller MD, Pasternak RE, Frank E, Perel JM, Cornes C, Houck PR, Mazumdar S, Dew MA, Kupfer DJ: Treatment of bereavement-related major depressive episodes in later life: a controlled study of acute and continuation treatment with nortriptyline and interpersonal psychotherapy. Am J Psychiatry 1999; 156:202–208