Daniel German Blazer

J. P. Gibbons Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Behavioral Medicine & Neurosciences

dan.g.blazer@duke.edu

Box 3003 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27710

2701 Pickett Rd., Apartment 3019, Durham, NC 27513

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Scholarly Works - Conferences

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY: TRANSLATING RESEARCH EVIDENCE INTO CLINICAL GERIATRIC MENTAL HEALTH PRACTICE

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY · April 2021 Link to item Cite

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY: TRANSLATING RESEARCH EVIDENCE INTO CLINICAL GERIATRIC MENTAL HEALTH PRACTICE

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY · April 1, 2020 Link to item Cite

When Geriatric Psychiatrists Retire: A Conversation About Critical Transitions in a Professional Career

Conference The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry · March 2018 Full text Cite

Long-Term Cumulative Depressive Symptom Burden and Risk of Cognitive Decline and Dementia among Very Old Women

Conference BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY · May 1, 2013 Link to item Cite

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) Report, the Mental Health and Substance Use Workforce for Older Adults: In Whose Hands? A Road Map for the Future of Our Field

Conference The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry · March 2013 Full text Cite

LONG-TERM DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOM BURDEN AND RISK OF COGNITIVE DECLINE AND DEMENTIA AMONG VERY OLD WOMEN

Conference GERONTOLOGIST · November 1, 2012 Link to item Cite

Risk factors that predict extraordinary survival among older adults: The complex association between depressive symptoms and mortality

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY · March 1, 2012 Link to item Cite

SUCCESSFUL AGING: WHAT EXACTLY IS IT ... AND WHY DOES IT MATTER FOR GEROPSYCHIATRY?

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY · March 2012 Link to item Cite

DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOM CLUSTERS AND THE RELATIONSHIP TO COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING

Conference GERONTOLOGIST · October 1, 2009 Link to item Cite

DEPRESSION IS PROSPECTIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH COMBAT DEPLOYMENT IN SUPPORT OF THE WARS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY · June 1, 2009 Link to item Cite

PROSPECTIVE INVESTIGATION OF MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES AND COPING BEHAVIORS IN DEPLOYERS SUPPORTING THE WARS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY · June 1, 2009 Link to item Cite

Treating Late-Life Depression: Aiming for the Optimum

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY · March 1, 2009 Link to item Cite

PROFILES OF DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS IN COMMUNITY-DWELLING OLDER ADULTS: A LATENT CLUSTER ANALYSIS

Conference GERONTOLOGIST · October 1, 2008 Link to item Cite

Profiles of Functional Impairment in Older Patients Treated for Major Depression

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY · March 1, 2008 Link to item Cite

Social Support in Older Individuals: The Role of the BDNF Va166Met Polymorphism

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY · March 1, 2008 Link to item Cite

Cerebrospinal fluid DHEA levels are elevated in Alzheimer's disease, related to neuropathological disease stage, and correlated with brain DHEA levels

Conference BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY · April 15, 2007 Link to item Cite

Deficit in the GABAergic neuroactive steroid allopregnanolone in Alzheimer's dementia and relevance to neuropathological disease stage: Investigations in temporal cortex

Conference NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY · December 1, 2005 Link to item Cite

A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, flexible-dose, trial of augmentation with oros methylphenidate in treatment resistant depression

Conference NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY · December 1, 2005 Link to item Cite

Mobility limitations as a predictor of depressive symptoms over time in community dwelling older adults

Conference GERONTOLOGIST · October 1, 2005 Link to item Cite

Neuroactive steroids and neurodegenerative disorders: Investigations in subjects with Alzheimer's and relevance to neuropathological disease stage

Conference BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY · April 15, 2005 Link to item Cite

Predictors of antidepressant use by older adults in the community: Have the changed over time?

Conference INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOGERIATRICS · January 1, 2005 Link to item Cite

Neuroactive steroids in Alzheimer's disease: Investigations in prefrontal cortex

Conference NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY · December 1, 2004 Link to item Cite

Depressive symptoms as predictors of functional decline: The importance of positive affect and somatic symptoms

Conference GERONTOLOGIST · October 2004 Link to item Cite

Black-white differences in antidepressant use in an elderly community sample.

Conference JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY · April 1, 2004 Link to item Cite

Is there a relationship between depression and cognitive decline in older persons?

Conference JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY · April 2003 Link to item Cite

Assessing depression in older persons: How you ask makes a difference.

Conference JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY · April 1, 2003 Link to item Cite

Subsyndromal depression: Case identification and community-based epidemiologic studies.

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY · 2002 Link to item Cite

Subsyndromal depression: What is it? What to do about it?

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY · 2002 Link to item Cite

Inflammation mortality association is explained by cardiovascular risk factors.

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY · June 1, 1999 Link to item Cite

Dysthymia, somatisation disorder and generalised anxiety in the elderly

Conference LATE-ONSET MENTAL DISORDERS · January 1, 1999 Link to item Cite

Apolipoprotein E allele frequencies in a population-based sample of cognitively intact Caucasians and African Americans.

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS · October 1, 1997 Link to item Cite

CAN WEIGHT-LOSS FROM MIDDLE-AGE TO OLD-AGE EXPLAIN THE INVERSE WEIGHT-MORTALITY RELATION IN OLD-AGE

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY · October 15, 1993 Link to item Cite

DECREASED PHYSICAL FUNCTION ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED LEVELS OF CROSS-LINKED D-DIMER FIBRIN FRAGMENTS IN SUBPOPULATIONS OF THE NORTH-CAROLINA PIEDMONT HEALTH SURVEY

Conference CLINICAL RESEARCH · April 1992 Link to item Cite

THE LAUDABLES AND LIMITS OF LARGE EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES OF MORTALITY

Conference AGING, HEALTH BEHAVIORS, AND HEALTH OUTCOMES · 1992 Link to item Cite

NEURORADIOLOGICAL FINDINGS IN ELDERLY PSYCHIATRIC-INPATIENTS

Conference JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY · August 1991 Link to item Cite

NORMAL AGING OF THE HUMAN BRAIN - TISSUE CHANGES AND MORPHOMETRIC DATA FROM MRI STUDIES

Conference JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY · August 1991 Link to item Cite

THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ANXIETY DISORDERS - AN AGE COMPARISON

Conference ANXIETY IN THE ELDERLY · 1991 Link to item Cite

PUTATIVE ENDOGENOUS INHIBITOR OF THE TRITIATED IMIPRAMINE BINDING-SITE IN DEPRESSED-PATIENTS

Conference BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, VOL 2 · January 1, 1991 Link to item Cite

CAN RACE-SEX DIFFERENCES IN HIP FRACTURE BE EXPLAINED BY BODY-MASS INDEX

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY · October 1989 Link to item Cite

MAJOR DEPRESSION IN THE MEDICALLY ILL

Conference JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY · July 1988 Link to item Cite

A COMPARISON OF DEPRESSION, SELF-REPORTED HEALTH-STATUS, AND PHYSICAL FUNCTIONING IN PREDICTING 2-YEAR MORTALITY RISK AMONG ELDERLY COMMUNITY RESIDENTS

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY · September 1986 Link to item Cite

DEPRESSION IN THE ELDERLY - EPIDEMIOLOGIC, CLINICAL AND PHARMACOTHERAPEUTIC ISSUES

Conference GERONTOLOGIST · January 1, 1984 Link to item Cite

ELECTROCONVULSIVE-THERAPY FOR THE SEVERELY DEPRESSED ELDERLY

Conference GERONTOLOGIST · 1983 Link to item Cite

PSYCHIATRIC EPIDEMIOLOGY FOR GERIATRICIANS

Conference GERONTOLOGIST · 1983 Link to item Cite

SOCIAL SUPPORT AS A PREDICTOR OF MORTALITY IN A COMMUNITY SAMPLE OF OLDER ADULTS

Conference GERONTOLOGIST · 1980 Link to item Cite

RELIGION AND AGING - ANALYSIS OF A LONGITUDINAL PANEL

Conference GERONTOLOGIST · January 1, 1975 Link to item Cite