DEPRESSION
Within the secondary dementias we have psychiatric depression,
conversion reaction and schizophrenia.
In geriatric patients depression needs to be treated in a very meticulous way. It should be treated as soon as the first symptoms begin as it is one of
the risk factors and it may trigger dementia, because
depression has a negative impact on
cognitive functions.
In addition, patients with depression tend
to have more subjective
complaints of memory loss,
they often have psychomotor retardation
and low motivation in conducting the test.
You have to make cognitive behavior therapy with depressed patients. This therapy focuses on
changing dysfunctional behaviors, negative thoughts and maladaptive attitudes.
When analyzing depressive symptoms we see loss of interest, loss of
energy, difficulty in thinking ... So it is easy that the
patient begins to make little exercise, to go less to the street, to lose interest in what he had before .... and consequently dementia arrives.
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