Changes in cortisol secretion during antidepressive treatment and cognitive improvement in patients with major depression: a longitudinal study.

  • Kim Hinkelmann
  • Steffen Moritz
  • Johannes Botzenhardt
  • Christoph Muhtz
  • Klaus Wiedemann
  • Michael Kellner
  • Christian Otte

Abstract

We have previously reported that cognitive deficits are cross-sectionally associated with elevated cortisol in depressed patients. Here, we longitudinally examined if changes in cortisol secretion during treatment are associated with improvement of cognition.

Bibliographical data

Original languageEnglish
Article number5
ISSN0306-4530
Publication statusPublished - 2012
pubmed 21944955