Depression is a serious illness with an important impact on humor and cognition. Pharmacological treatments and/or psychotherapy are commonly indicated. The present study aimed to compare cognition in adult patients diagnosed with depression before and after 12 months of treatment with fluoxetine or psychodynamic psychotherapy. One hundred and eighty depressed patients were divided into two treatment groups, and cognitively assessed with the WAIS-III. Results showed a significant improvement in different subtests of WAIS-III. MANOVA indicated that there is a significant difference between groups in the mean scores of the post-treatment assessment. The results suggest that psychodynamic psychotherapy and fluoxetine act differently on cognition of depressed patients.
psychodynamic psychotherapy; fluoxetine; cognition; depression
