Talk:Pseudodementia

GA Nomination

 * I have nominated this article at GAC for good article status. Anthøny  12:48, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Hello
Hello! I have completed a Peer Review Letter for my classmates in Cognitive Psychology at UVU. Here are my thoughts: The article had a great lead section which correlated wtih the rest of the content in the article. I do want to suggest some changes. First is to reorganize the different sections in the article to make more sense. Starting with the "History" section, then going into "Pseudodementia vs Dementia" then "Treatment" and finishing up with "Presentation and Differential". I think this would help with the overall flow of the article. I also think that a brief statement about treatment should be mentioned in the lead, since it is a topic covered in the article. Lastly, I do think it would be nice to have more content in the "Treatment" section like what treatments have been used in the past, what treatments are currently being used, how treatments affect patients, etc. This section did cover some of these questions, however, it was very brief. Out of all of these suggestions, I think the most important one would be the reorganization of the entire article. This article had a well-written lead section as well as different, applicable content areas. MarciWilson (talk) 02:40, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

Merge proposal
I propose that pseudosenility be merged and redirected to pseudodementia. Best I can tell, pseudosenility is not a "current thing". The term returns only three hits in PubMed, TOTAL-- 1958, 1961 and 1973. That's it. Most of the sources listed in the article are for pseudodementia or reversible dementia, and a lot of the actual article is about pseudodementia. And the lead specifically says it is actually about pseudodementia (A more specific term "pseudodementia"). Pseudodementia returns 3,500 hits in Pubmed, including more than 500 reviews, and 60 reviews in the last five years. And, pseudosenility was pretty much a student editing article. Sandy Georgia  (Talk)  02:26, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Sandy Georgia (Talk)  02:06, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, they are essentially synonymous and should be merged Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 02:38, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Yep, same thing according to Campbell’s Psychiatric Dictionary, via WAID.Sandy Georgia (Talk)  05:13, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Support. --Tom (LT) (talk) 01:57, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

✅ Sandy Georgia (Talk)  15:03, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Comments
Møhtje (talk) 12:02, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

I think that, as for the cause of 'pseudodementia', (irreversible?) damage to the brain due to chronic stress and exhaustion of the stress axis (among others caused by (chronic) psychotrauma), should be included? Merely mentioning depression as the sole cause of pseudodementia seems limited.

This also goes for the treatment of depression through cognitive therapy and interpersonal therapy.