Sibel Akyol Klimstra, M.D.
Psychiatry
Publications
Journal Articles
Roth A, Akyol S, Nelson JC (1994): Delirium associated with the combination of a neuroleptic, an SSRI, and benztropine. J Clin Psychiatry 55:492-495.
Kiosses DN, Klimstra S, Murphy C, Alexopoulos GS (2001): Executive dysfunction and disability in elderly patients with major depression. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 9:269-274.
Raue PJ, Alexopoulos GS, Bruce ML, Klimstra S, Mulsant BH, Gallo JJ (2001): The systematic assessment of depressed elderly primary care patients. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 16:560-569.
Wiener PK, Kiosses DN, Klimstra S, Murphy C, Alexopoulos GS (2001): A short-term inpatient program for agitated demented nursing home residents. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 16:866-872
Meyers BS, Klimstra S, Gabriele M, Hamilton M, Kakuma T, Tirumalasetti F, et al (2001): Continuation treatment of delusional depression in older adults. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 9:415-422.
Alexopoulos GS, Kiosses DN, Klimstra S, Kalayam B, Bruce ML (2002): Clinical presentation of the "depression-executive dysfunction syndrome" of late life. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 10:98-106.
Murphy CF, Hoptman MJ, Gunning-Dixon F, Lim KO,Katz R, Kannellopoulos D, Klimstra S, Alexopoulos GS (2006): Macromolecular abnormalities in fronto-striato-limbic regions and remission of geriatric depression. Neuropsychopharmacology 31:Suppl 1
Young RC, Kiosses D, Heo M, Schulberg HC, Murphy C, Klimstra S, deAsis JM, Alexopoulos GS (2007): Age and ratings of manic psychopathology. Bipolar Disorders 9: 301-304.Alexopoulos GS, Murphy CF, Gunning-Dixon FM, Kalayam B, Katz R, Kanellopoulos D, Etwaroo GR, Klimstra S, Foxe JJ (2007): Event-related potentials in an emotional go/no-go task and remission of geriatric depression. Neuroreport 18:217-221.
Gunning-Dixon, Hoptman, M, Lim K, Murphy C, Klimstra S, Latoussakis V, Majcher-Tascio M, Hrabe J, Ardekani B, Alexopouos G (2008): Macromolecular white matter abnormalities in geriatric depression: a magnetization transfer imaging study. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 255-262.
Alexopoulos GS, Murphy CF, Gunning-Dixon FM, Latoussakis V, Kanellopoulos D, Klimstra S, Lim KO, Hoptman MJ (2008): Microstructural white matter abnormalities and remission of geriatric depression. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 165(2):238-244
Raue PJ, Schulberg HC, Heo M, Klimstra S, Bruce ML (2009): Patients' depression treatment preferences and initiation, adherence, and outcome: a randomized primary care study. Psych Services 60:337-343.
Klimstra S and Mahgoub N (2009): Psychosis of Alzheimer's disease. Psychiatric Annals 39: 1: 10-14.
Gunning-Dixon FM, Cheng J, Murphy CF, Kanellopoulos D, Acuna J, Hoptman MJ, Klimstra S, Morimoto S, Weinberg J, Alexopoulos GS (2009) : Anterior Cingulate Cortical Volumes and Treatment Remission of Geriatric Depression. Int J of Ger Psych 24: 829-836.
Alexopoulos GS, Murphy CF, Gunning-Dixon, FM, Glatt CE, Latoussakis V, Kelly RE, Kanellopoulos D, Klimstra S, Lim KO, Young RC, Hoptman MJ. Serotonin transporter polymorphisms, microstructural white matter abnormalities and remission of geriatric depression. Journal of Affective Disorders (2009): (available online 17 April 2009): 119: 132-141.
Brown EL, Raue PJ, Klimstra S, Mlodzianowski AE, Greenberg RL, Bruce ML (2010): An Intervention to improve nurse-physician communication in depression care. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry Vol 18 (6):483-490.
Gunning-Dixon FM, Walton M, Cheng J, Acuna J, Klimstra S , Zimmerman ME,
Brickman A, Hoptman MJ, Young, RC, Alexopoulos GS (2010): MRI Signal
hyperintensities and treatment remission of geriatric depression. J Affect Disord Vol 126: 395-401.
Mahgoub, N, Singh, A and Klimstra, S (2010): A 65 year-old Woman with Self-injurious Behavior: A Case Report. J Am Geriatr Soc (available online 2 July 2010) Vol 58 (7): pp 1422-1423.
Mahgoub N, Klimstra S, Kotbi N, Docherty J (2010) :Self-injurious behavior in older adults in the nursing home setting. Int J of Ger Psych (available online 14 Apr 2010) Vol: 26 (1) pp27-30.
Morimoto SS, Gunning FM, Kanellopoulos D, Murphy CF, Klimstra SA, Kelly RE Jr, Alexopoulos GS. Semantic organizational strategy predicts verbal memory and remission rate of geriatric depression. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry, 2011; [Epub ahead of print]. PMID:21618287
Klimstra S and Mahgoub N (2010): Alcohol and Substance Use Disorders in the Geriatric Psychiatry Inpatient (CME Activity) Psychiatric Annals Vol 40 (6).
Singh, A, Mahgoub, N and Klimstra S (2011): Apathy associated with a unilateral globus pallidus lesion: a case report. Int J of Ger Psych Vol: 26 (7) pp765-766.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Klimstra, S, Latoussakis, V, Kiosses, D, and Alexopoulos GS (2009). The geriatric unit. In S. S. Sharfstein, F. B. Dickerson & J. M. Oldham (Eds.), The Textbook of Hospital Psychiatry. (pp 71-87). Arlington, VA:American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
Klimstra, S and Young, R (2009). Ninth case: bipolar disorder. In J Barnhill (Ed.), Approach to the Psychiatric Patient- Case-Based Essays . (pp.348-351). Washington, DC:American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
Latoussakis V, Klimstra S, Alexopoulos GS (2008). Geriatric depression, In R Moretti (Ed.) Hot Topics in Neurology and Psychiatry. (Issue 2). Italy: FBCommunication.
Latoussakis, V, Klimstra S and Alexopoulos GS (2009) The elderly psychiatric inpatient. In F. Ovsiew & R. Munich (Eds.) Principles of Inpatient Psychiatry. (pp 287-305). Baltimore, MD:Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
