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Jerome A. Yesavage
Researcher at Stanford University
Publications - 446
Citations - 43320
Jerome A. Yesavage is an academic researcher from Stanford University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cognition & Dementia. The author has an hindex of 73, co-authored 423 publications receiving 39527 citations. Previous affiliations of Jerome A. Yesavage include United States Department of Veterans Affairs & National Institutes of Health.
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CSF hypocretin/orexin levels in narcolepsy and other neurological conditions.
Beth Ripley,Sebastiaan Overeem,Nobuhiro Fujiki,Sona Nevsimalova,M Uchino,Jerome A. Yesavage,Donato A. Di Monte,Kenji Dohi,Atle Melberg,Gert Jan Lammers,Y. Nishida,Fwc Roelandse,Marcel Hungs,Emmanuel Mignot,Seiji Nishino +14 more
TL;DR: Undetectable CSF hypocretin-1 levels are highly specific to narcolepsy and rare cases of GBS, which is a useful diagnostic procedure and future research in this area is needed to establish functional significance.
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Gender Differences in Moderate Drinking Effects
TL;DR: It is concluded that the menstrual cycle is unlikely to influence alcohol pharmacokinetics and that women are more susceptible than men to alcohol-related impairment of cognitive performance, especially in tasks involving delayed memory or divided attention functions.
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The validation of the short form of the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) in Greece.
Konstantinos N. Fountoulakis,Magda Tsolaki,Apostolos Iacovides,Jerome A. Yesavage,Ruth O'Hara,Aristidis Kazis,Ch. Ierodiakonou +6 more
TL;DR: A score of 6/7 on the GDS-15 was found to be the best cut-off point for diagnosing depression in an elderly Greek population, with Sensitivity=92.23 and Specificity=95.24, and factor analysis of the G DS-15 revealed 4 factors: a cognitive, an affective, a functional, and a factor that reflects helplessness and fear for the future.
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Proposed Factor Structure of the Geriatric Depression Scale
Javaid I. Sheikh,Jerome A. Yesavage,John O. Brooks,Leah Friedman,Peter Gratzinger,Robert D. Hill,Anastasia Zadeik,Thomas H. Crook +7 more
TL;DR: The Geriatric Depression Scale was administered to 326 community-dwelling elderly subjects, and the data were subjected to a factor analysis, which revealed the structure of the factors that emerged.
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Perspectives on depression, mild cognitive impairment, and cognitive decline.
David C. Steffens,Emeline Otey,George S. Alexopoulos,Meryl A. Butters,Bruce N. Cuthbert,Mary Ganguli,Yonas E. Geda,Hugh C. Hendrie,Ranga Krishnan,Anand Kumar,Oscar L. Lopez,Constantine G. Lyketsos,Benjamin T. Mast,John C. Morris,Maria C. Norton,Guerry M. Peavy,Ronald C. Petersen,Charles F. Reynolds,Stephen Salloway,Kathleen A. Welsh-Bohmer,Jerome A. Yesavage +20 more
TL;DR: One of the most important recommendations to emerge from the meeting discussions is for increased collaboration among clinical and epidemiological investigators whose work focuses on depression with those working primarily in the area of memory disorders.