The objective of this Clinical Mental Health Academic Award application is to assist Dr. Robert Abrams in his academic activities in the field of geriatric psychiatry and to develop a clinical research program in geriatric personality disorders at the New York Hospital-Westchester Division. The award will free Dr. Abrams from most of his present clinical responsibilities and permit him to: 1) Develop as an expert in assessment and interpretation of personality disorders and symptoms in geriatric patients; 2) study the principal methodological problems that have limited research in this field up to the present time; 3) generate new instrumentation to evaluate personality traits and disorders in cognitively impaired elderly subjects; and 4) conduct a research project studying personality disorder symptomatology as predictors of outcome in geriatric Major Depression. As a result of these efforts, hypotheses on underlying relationships of personality traits, aging, and affective disorders will be formulated.
| Abrams, R C; Alexopoulos, G S; Spielman, L A et al. (2001) Personality disorder symptoms predict declines in global functioning and quality of life in elderly depressed patients. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 9:67-71 |
| Abrams, R C; Spielman, L A; Alexopoulos, G S et al. (1998) Personality disorder symptoms and functioning in elderly depressed patients. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 6:24-30 |
| Abrams, R C; Rosendahl, E; Card, C et al. (1994) Personality disorder correlates of late and early onset depression. J Am Geriatr Soc 42:727-31 |
