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List of works by Helen Lavretsky

A Pilot Study of the Effects of Meditation on Regional Brain Metabolism in Distressed Dementia Caregivers ⬇️

scientific article published on October 1, 2012

A meta-analysis of chemokines in major depression

scientific article

A randomized controlled trial of Kundalini yoga in mild cognitive impairment

scientific article published on 16 January 2017

A tune in “a minor” can “b major”: A review of epidemiology, illness course, and public health implications of subthreshold depression in older adults ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 2011

Altered resting-state functional connectivity in late-life depression: A cross-sectional study

scientific article

An Observational Study of the Health Benefits of Yoga or Tai Chi Compared with Aerobic Exercise in Community-Dwelling Middle-Aged and Older Adults ⬇️

scientific article published on 02 May 2013

Anterior cingulate, gyrus rectus, and orbitofrontal abnormalities in elderly depressed patients: an MRI-based parcellation of the prefrontal cortex

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Antidepressant exposure may protect against decrement in frontal gray matter volumes in geriatric depression

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Antidepressant pharmacotherapy in the treatment of depression in the very old: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial

scientific article published in November 2004

Anxiety symptoms are associated with smaller insular and orbitofrontal cortex volumes in late-life depression

scientific article published on 29 May 2019

Apathy Mediates Cognitive Difficulties in Geriatric Depression

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Apolipoprotein epsilon4 allele status, depressive symptoms, and cognitive decline in middle-aged and elderly persons without dementia

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Association of depressed mood and mortality in older adults with and without cognitive impairment in a prospective naturalistic study

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Changes in Neural Connectivity and Memory Following a Yoga Intervention for Older Adults: A Pilot Study

scientific article published on 05 April 2016

Citalopram, methylphenidate, or their combination in geriatric depression: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

scientific article published on 13 February 2015

Clinical Advances in Geriatric Psychiatry: A Focus on Prevention of Mood and Cognitive Disorders

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Clinical correlates of resilience factors in geriatric depression

scientific article published on 16 January 2018

Clinically significant non-major depression: old concepts, new insights

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Clinicians' Views on Treatment-Resistant Depression: 2016 Survey Reports

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Cognitive and cerebral metabolic effects of celecoxib versus placebo in people with age-related memory loss: randomized controlled study

scientific article published on December 2008

Cognitive behavioral therapy vs. Tai Chi for late life insomnia and inflammatory risk: a randomized controlled comparative efficacy trial

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Combined treatment with methylphenidate and citalopram for accelerated response in the elderly: an open trial

scientific article published on December 2003

Community-Based Acupunch Exercise Program Improves Physical Health and Quality of Sleep in Taiwanese Older Adults

scientific article published on 8 February 2018

Comparing the Immune-Genomic Effects of Vilazodone and Paroxetine in Late-Life Depression: A Pilot Study

scientific article published on 25 April 2017

Complementary and alternative medicine use for treatment and prevention of late-life mood and cognitive disorders

scientific article published on February 2009

Complementary use of tai chi chih augments escitalopram treatment of geriatric depression: a randomized controlled trial

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Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine Use is Rising among Aging Baby Boomers

scientific article published on 30 August 2017

Convergence Science Arrives: How Does It Relate to Psychiatry?

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Cortical thickness increases with levomilnacipran treatment in a pilot randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial in late-life depression

scientific article published on 22 July 2019

Daily functioning and prefrontal brain morphology in healthy and depressed community-dwelling elderly

scientific article published on August 2008

Depression and anxiety symptoms are associated with cerebral FDDNP-PET binding in middle-aged and older nondemented adults

scientific article published on June 2009

Differential FDDNP PET patterns in nondemented middle-aged and older adults

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Effects of a 14-day healthy longevity lifestyle program on cognition and brain function

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Emerging Complementary and Integrative Therapies for Geriatric Mental Health

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

Estrogen use and brain metabolic change in postmenopausal women

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Executive dysfunction and memory in older patients with major and minor depression

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Executive dysfunction and visuospatial ability among depressed elders in a community setting

scientific article published in August 2004

Feasibility of central meditation and imagery therapy for dementia caregivers

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Frontal white matter biochemical abnormalities in late-life major depression detected with proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy

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Genomic predictors of remission to antidepressant treatment in geriatric depression using genome-wide expression analyses: a pilot study

scientific article published on 15 October 2015

Grief, Mindfulness and Neural Predictors of Improvement in Family Dementia Caregivers.

scientific article published on 14 May 2019

Hallucinations Predict Relapse After Discontinuation of Risperidone in Patients With Alzheimer's Disease and Psychosis or Agitation

scientific article published on April 2017

Impact of Prior Treatment on Remission of Late-Life Depression with Venlafaxine and Subsequent Aripiprazole or Placebo Augmentation

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Improving depression and enhancing resilience in family dementia caregivers: a pilot randomized placebo-controlled trial of escitalopram

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Influence of cognitive status, age, and APOE-4 genetic risk on brain FDDNP positron-emission tomography imaging in persons without dementia

scientific article published on January 2009

Influences of lobar gray matter and white matter lesion load on cognition and mood

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Innovations: geriatric psychiatry: diagnosis and treatment of neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer's disease

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Intervention Research in Late-Life Depression: Challenges and Opportunities

scientific article published on 4 November 2015

Lifestyle Medicine for Prevention of Cognitive Decline: Focus on Green Tea.

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Localizing Gray Matter Deficits in Late-Onset Depression Using Computational Cortical Pattern Matching Methods

scientific article published on 01 November 2004

MRI subcortical hyperintensities in old and very old depressed outpatients: the important role of age in late-life depression

scientific article published in November 2002

Mapping brain size and cortical gray matter changes in elderly depression

scientific article published in February 2004

Medical burden, cerebrovascular disease, and cognitive impairment in geriatric depression: modeling the relationships with the CART analysis.

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Methylphenidate-enhanced antidepressant response to citalopram in the elderly: a double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot trial

scientific article published in February 2006

Mind-Body Therapies for Late-Life Mental and Cognitive Health

scientific article published on 25 January 2018

Modifiable Risk Factors and Brain Positron Emission Tomography Measures of Amyloid and Tau in Nondemented Adults with Memory Complaints

scientific article published on 13 May 2016

Natural products and supplements for geriatric depression and cognitive disorders: an evaluation of the research

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Neural correlates of apathy in late-life depression: a pilot [18 F]FDDNP positron emission tomography study

scientific article published on 28 January 2017

Neuroanatomical characteristics of geriatric apathy and depression: a magnetic resonance imaging study

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Neurochemical and Neuroanatomical Plasticity Following Memory Training and Yoga Interventions in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment

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Neurocognitive Correlates of Resilience in Late-Life Depression

scientific article published on 25 August 2018

Neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer disease and related disorders: why do treatments work in clinical practice but not in the randomized trials?

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Older Adults' Perspectives on Clinical Research: A Focus Group and Survey Study

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PET of brain amyloid and tau in mild cognitive impairment.

scientific article published in December 2006

Pharmacogenetic Decision Support Tools: A New Paradigm for Late-Life Depression?

scientific article published on 25 May 2017

Physical Activity and Hippocampal Sub-Region Structure in Older Adults with Memory Complaints

scientific article published on 12 December 2017

Practical geriatrics: clinically significant nonmajor geriatric depression

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Prediction of cognitive decline by positron emission tomography of brain amyloid and tau.

scientific article published on February 2012

Predictors of two-year mortality in a prospective "UPBEAT" study of elderly veterans with comorbid medical and psychiatric symptoms

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Prior depression history and deterioration of physical health in community-dwelling older adults--a prospective cohort study

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Psychobiological factors of resilience and depression in late life

Psychological well-being and regional brain amyloid and tau in mild cognitive impairment

scientific article published on 26 March 2013

Rapid Response of Major Depressive Disorder and Comorbid Eating Disorder NOS to a Novel Meditation Intervention ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 2012

Resilience and aging

Resilience and amygdala function in older healthy and depressed adults

article published in 2018

Response to Roose and Rutherford

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S-Adenosylmethionine (SAMe) for Neuropsychiatric Disorders: A Clinician-Oriented Review of Research

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Self-reported memory impairment and brain PET of amyloid and tau in middle-aged and older adults without dementia

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Sex differences in brain structure in geriatric depression

scientific article published in November 2004

Sleep disturbance and depression recurrence in community-dwelling older adults: a prospective study

scientific article published on 02 September 2008

Stress, Inflammation, and Aging ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 2012

Tai Chi and Qigong for the Treatment and Prevention of Mental Disorders ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 2013

The MRI brain correlates of depressed mood, anhedonia, apathy, and anergia in older adults with and without cognitive impairment or dementia

scientific article published on October 2008

The Neural Mechanisms of Meditative Practices: Novel Approaches for Healthy Aging

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The aging brain: current concepts, intervention strategies and the role of Ginkgo biloba extract EGb 761. Introduction ⬇️

scientific article published on August 1, 2012

The patterns of cognitive and functional impairment in amnestic and non-amnestic mild cognitive impairment in geriatric depression

scientific article published on 5 November 2013

The significance of subsyndromal depression in geriatrics

scientific article published on February 2004

Therapy of depression in dementia

scientific article published on September 2003

Vascular Burden and Cognitive Functioning in Depressed Older Adults ⬇️

scientific article published on August 1, 2012

Yogic meditation reverses NF-κB and IRF-related transcriptome dynamics in leukocytes of family dementia caregivers in a randomized controlled trial

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