Awareness of Psychiatric Symptoms in a Mixed Clinical Sample of Older Adults.
Hannah E BrunetJeffrey L CummingsSarah J BanksJustin B MillerPublished in: Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology (2019)
These findings highlight the importance of capturing informant report in clinical practice with older adults suspected of cognitive impairment. Unawareness of mood symptoms was related to memory dysfunction and-to a lesser extent-to executive abilities and may have implications for addressing patient and caregiver needs for disorders affecting these cognitive systems.