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That's the finding of a pilot study published in the March, 2010 issue of The
American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. In the study, 19 participants with SSD ranging in age from 63 to 94 played one of five exergames--tennis, bowling, baseball, golf or boxing--during 35-minute sessions, three times a week for 12 weeks.
She proposed the theory in 2001, in a letter to the editor of the
American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry (9[4]:444-45, 2001).
Observing the effect of antidepressant medications on brain metabolism may give doctors new insight into why 25 percent of depressed older patients gain little benefit from a widely prescribed class of antidepressants that focus on the brain chemical serotonin, according to a study reported in the
American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry (October 31, 2002).
Another recent study (
American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, Nov.