Anxiety symptoms during COVID-19 in older adults with psychiatric disorders.

Objective: During the COVID-19 pandemic, older people and patients with psychiatric disorders had an increased risk of being isolated. The French National Authority for Health has recommended a reinforced follow-up of these patients. Cross-sectional studies reported an increased risk of developing anxiety and depression during pandemic.

[Anxiety, depression and coping evolution during the Covid-19 pandemic in older people with psychiatric diseases].

Introduction: Lockdown over the Covid-19 pandemic might have had a major impact on people's mental health. The present longitudinal study was aimed to explore the impact of the two first lockdowns on anxious and depressive symptoms of older subjects suffering from psychiatric disorders and to highlight their strategies to cope with the stress induced by these lockdowns.

Methods: Twenty-one outpatients from psychogeriatric units benefited from a follow-up visit phone.

Association Between Mild Neurocognitive Disorder Due to Alzheimer's Disease and Possible Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Case Report.

Recent literature concerning attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) underlines the persistence of this neurodevelopmental illness in older patients. Comorbidity with a neurodegenerative disease is thus possible. However, few studies have investigated this topic.

Comparative diagnosis interest of NfL and pNfH in CSF and plasma in a context of FTD-ALS spectrum.

Objective: The 'Frontotemporal dementia-Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Spectrum' (FAS) encompasses different phenotypes, including cognitive disorders (frontotemporal dementia, FTD) and/or motor impairments (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS). The aim of this study was to apprehend the specific uses of neurofilaments light chain (NfL) and phosphorylated neurofilaments heavy chain (pNfH) in a context of FAS.

Methods: First, NfL and pNfH were measured in 39 paired cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and plasma samples of FAS and primary psychiatric disorders (PPD) patients, considered as controls.

Mental Health of People with Dementia During COVID-19 Pandemic: What Have We Learned from the First Wave?

Background: People with dementia (PWD) and their caregivers are populations highly vulnerable to COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences. A better knowledge of the living conditions during the first lockdown is necessary to prevent the risk of poor mental health (PMH) in this population.

Objective: The present study aimed to compare the mental health of caregivers of PWD living at home or in nursing-homes and to identify specific factors influencing their mental health.

Behavioral and psychological symptoms in Lewy body disease: a review.

Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is a common neurodegenerative disease, second in terms of prevalence after Alzheimer's disease (AD). DLB may be suspected according to three core features which are cognitive and motor fluctuations, early visual hallucinations and parkinsonism; and more recently, according to the new criteria, REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD). Behavorial and psychological symptoms associated with DLB are more frequent, more severe and appear earlier than those found in other neurodegenerative diseases.

[Specialized training in geriatric psychiatry during residency in France].

Aging of the population is a growing concern in developed countries. Therefore, geriatric psychiatry has gradually emerged from general psychiatry. Many names have been proposed to term this sub-specialty: old age psychiatry (OAP), psychogeriatrics, geropsychiatry.