Erratum: Mild worry symptoms predict decline in learning and memory in healthy older adults: A 2-year prospective cohort study (American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry (2012) 20 (266-275))

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: The atypical depression (AD) subtype has rarely been examined in older patients. However, younger AD patients have been characterized as having more severe and chronic symptoms of depression compared with non-AD patients. DESIGN: Secondary data analysis by using analyses of variance and Growth Curve Modeling. SETTING: Clinical Research Center for the study of depression in later life. PARTICIPANTS: Depressed older patients (N = 248) followed over 2 years. METHOD: In a longitudinal study, we examined depression severity and chronicity in patients with major depression with some features of AD, specifically rejection sensitivity and reversed-vegetative symptoms (e.g., hyperphagia a..