Psychiatria pre prax 2/2014
Depressive pseudodementia (DPD)
Depressive pseudodementia is a cognitive deficit, arising out of the depresivity (so-called false dementia). It is a serious complication of depressive disorder, whitch may lead to misdiagnosis and consequently, the wrong treatment, with consequence in prolongation of disease, or pharmacoresistance. Both signs of cognitive deficits and symptoms of typical in depression are obvious. Basic survey of depressive pseudodementia differential diagnostics is shown this paper.
Keywords: depressive pseudodementia, depression, dementia.
