Barry D. Lebowitz

TL;DR: The norms declined with advancing age, especially for less educated women, and were higher for individuals with higher educational levels, while in screening for dementia, the norms had a sensitivity of 85% and a specificity of 89%.

TL;DR: Evidence on the safety and efficacy of antipsychotics, as well as nonpharmacologic approaches, in treating dementia-related symptoms of agitation and aggression is reviewed and a algorithm for improving the treatment of these patients in nursing home and non-nursing home settings is provided.

TL;DR: Cognitive function declined more in patients receiving antipsychotics than in those given placebo on multiple cognitive measures, including the MMSE, the cognitive subscale of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale, and a cognitive summary score summarizing change on 18 cognitive tests.

TL;DR: The first placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of antidepressant pharmacotherapy, with and without complicated grief psychotherapy, in the treatment of complicated grief found rates of suicidal ideation diminished to a substantially greater extent among participants receiving CGT than among those who did not.

TL;DR: Results were interpreted to mean that sampling and attrition in this longitudinal sample did not seriously bias results on these personality variables, and that cross-sectional findings from a large probability sample support the conclusion that personality is predominantly stable in adulthood.