Affective Disorders in the Elderly

Question 1

What does the organic screen for depression consist of?

Answer 1

• FBE, UEC, LFT, B12/Folate, BSL, Ca, TFT
  
  • CTB
    
    • MSU

Question 2

What are some risk factors for completing suicide in the elderly?

Answer 2

Male
Living alone
Socially isolated
Recent Bereavement 
Personality dysfunction
Alcohol abuse
Medical illness/frailty

Question 3

How does the presentation of mania differ in the elderly?

Answer 3

Irritability is more common
Slower speech
Think of organic causes

Question 4

What types of psychosis predominate in psychotic depression?

Answer 4

Delusions of persecution, poverty, guilt, nihilism

Command hallucinations

Question 5

What types of psychosis predominate in mania?

Answer 5

Delusions of persecution, grandiosity, and erotomania