Cognitive Impairment Secondary to Depressive Symptomology and its Relationship with Functional Impairment

Depression is a disabling condition affecting millions of people. Some of the symptoms of depression make it impossible for people to function in their daily lives. People experience significant levels of memory, thinking, planning and other cognitive symptoms that impair their abilities to go to work, school and take care of themselves and family. What is unclear is how and to what extent does this type of impairment lead to real world disability, and whether or not these levels of impairment exist in a broad range of people with varying levels of depressive symptomology. The benefits of determining the extent of cognitive impairment resulting in disability for those suffering from depressive disorders is that treatments can be modified and developed to directly target these cognitive symptoms.

Faculty Supervisor:

Konstantine Zakzanis

Student:

Sonya Dhillon

Partner:

Lundbeck Canada Inc

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

University of Toronto