Memory impairment in patients with late-onset major depression: The effect of antidepressant therapy

Cognitive deficits have been described in patients with major depression (MD), although many aspects remain unsettled. During an episode of MD and after remission we used tasks exploring attention, implicit, anterograde and retrograde memory to investigate 48 drug-free patients aged over 50 years without dementia, comparing them with 15 normal volunteer controls (NC). We also evaluated the effect of antidepressant therapy (ADT) with fluoxetine...