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Benoit H. Mulsant

Researcher at Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Publications -  696
Citations -  33546

Benoit H. Mulsant is an academic researcher from Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Depression (differential diagnoses). The author has an hindex of 84, co-authored 610 publications receiving 29408 citations. Previous affiliations of Benoit H. Mulsant include University of Toronto & United States Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Rating chronic medical illness burden in geropsychiatric practice and research: Application of the Cumulative Illness Rating Scale

TL;DR: The current data suggest that the CIRS(G) can be successfully applied in medically and psychiatrically impaired elderly subjects, with good interrater reliability and face validity (credibility).
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Reducing Suicidal Ideation and Depressive Symptoms in Depressed Older Primary Care Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial

TL;DR: Evidence of the intervention's effectiveness in reducing suicidal ideation, regardless of depression severity, reinforces its role as a prevention strategy to reduce risk factors for suicide in late life.
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The nature and determinants of neuropsychological functioning in late-life depression.

TL;DR: Late-life depression is characterized by slowed information processing, which affects all realms of cognition, and this supports the concept that frontostriatal dysfunction plays a key role in LLD.
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Continuation pharmacotherapy in the prevention of relapse following electroconvulsive therapy: a randomized controlled trial.

TL;DR: It is indicated that without active treatment, virtually all remitted patients relapse within 6 months of stopping ECT, and the combination of nortriptyline and lithium is more effective, but the relapse rate is still high, particularly during the first month of continuation therapy.
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The association of late-life depression and anxiety with physical disability: a review of the literature and prospectus for future research.

TL;DR: The authors searched the recent geriatric literature for studies associating late-life depression or anxiety with physical disability and found studies showed depression in old age to be an independent risk factor for disability; similarly, disability was found to be a risk factors for depression.