Late-Onset Suicide: A Dementia Prodrome?

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study examined whether late-onset (versus early-onset) suicidal behavior is associated with worse cognition.

Methods

Participants included 278 adults aged 50+ years (56 nonpsychiatric comparison group; 67 nonsuicidal depressed older adults; 63 depressed suicide ideators; and 44 late-onset (55+ years) and 48 early-onset suicide attempters (<55 years). Using a case-control design, this study examined group differences in global cognition, episodic memory, information processing speed, and executive functioning, assessed using the Repeatable Battery of Neuropsychological Status and the Trail Making Test from the Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System. Linear regression was used for data analyses.

Results

Both attempter groups displayed worse executive fun

SUBMITTER: Gujral S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8187470 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature